• @Pantherina@feddit.deOP
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    611 months ago

    You need other apps.

    • banking
    • public transport
    • weird stuff
    • vinted
    • spotify
    • some random good but not FOSS apps
    • paid apps (which should actually not be a problem)
    • fu
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      -211 months ago

      @Pantherina no, no you don’t. I will say I have been flaburgassted by the number of people on our free and federated network that advertise their love for the freedom denying survailance capitalist “service” of spotify. #FunkWhale4ever

      • @Pantherina@feddit.deOP
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        411 months ago

        No you dont but you have no social life in that case. People sharing playlists with you, looking up music quickly… personally I dont need it, but its a bubble poorly

        • @Tatar_Nobility@lemmy.ml
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          11 months ago

          You can still freely access the playlists on https://open.spotify.com/ without an account. And Newpipe has a share function for local playlists. You won’t be missing on a lot, just don’t fall for the consumerist trap and break the social boundaries.

          Edit: You can also access banking services from their respective website. Don’t give them power over you by downloading their apps.

          • @naoseiquemsou@lemmy.ml
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            111 months ago

            Here in Brazil, banking services force you into installing spyware in your computer in order to use them, making it a worse option compared to proprietary android apps.

          • @Pantherina@feddit.deOP
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            111 months ago

            Didnt know that! Thats cool.

            Banking TAN apps are nessecary if you somehow want to use your phone and not a weird card reader. The app itself is just comfortable

        • fu
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          111 months ago

          @Pantherina I’ve honestly never even heard of sharing playlists through freedom denying proprietary surveillance capitalist software like that. I understand the necessity when sharing personal files, like on #Funkwhale, but I certainly wouldn’t call that a social interaction, let alone a significant portion of one’s social life. Mind explaining it to this old guy?

          • @Pantherina@feddit.deOP
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            011 months ago

            I dont listen to much music. I dont have Gigabytes of music. No real idea how to discover new music of various genres.

            So if people share playlists atleast I need to download the songs. I almost never use that app, but anyways.

            • fu
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              111 months ago

              @Pantherina yeah no need to download to listen to Funkwhale, “the cloud” it plays from is just the various servers on the Fediverse