Seems like the real story here is one guy maintaining a critical infrastructure begging for volunteers to help out and nobody steps up. So yeah, I really don’t like what he does. And also the OSS community is failing him.

Deezer seems to do a decent job. Publishing numbers and filtering content. They can probably do a better job. But it was enough for me to switch over.

You can actually buy albums on Qobuz. Buy and download, always yours, legally!

Between Framework at least trying to build an open ecosystem, there are very very few other options out there. Yes they can probably do better, still they are effectively the only decent open option (for me at least) at a reasonable price and quality.

When I saw the other day that github reliability was <90% I knew they are deep on the road to fully cooked.

My dyslexic brain gets upset with this mid-sentence emoji usage. Takes much more time and effort to read and interpret.