Question, is MiceChat connected to Disney corporate in any way, or are they a fully independent website, of/by/for disney fans?

I hope you see where I’m going with this question and the fact they are the largest community, still around from the “bygone era of the internet”. If you allow FB/IG/Threads to gain their foothold, you will not be around 20 years later. If MiceChat had integrated into FB/Reddit/etc, they would not be around anymore, especially not in the independent way they are.

btw, I wasn’t arguing in bad faith. the idea of the power hungry power mod of reddit is a widely known concept. Immediately trying to disregard my argument on that continues to show your fragility in your control of your community.

Idk if you’re familiar with GenCon, a board game convention in Indy, but I’ve run the unofficial Discord server since 2017. While not even close to as big as the official server, made in 2020, the users have stayed on our little server and we still gain new users each summer. The thing is, I don’t run the server like some big corpo project, but literally as a diy space where people can feel comfortable asking questions and getting to know each other, myself included. I don’t ban folks without community input, because while I have the sole power to do so, it’s not my community, it’s ours. GenCon LLC has never reached out to me, because I’m not trying to do what they do, and I don’t care about them because of the same reason. I’d wouldn’t mind having a larger number of users, but at the same time, I’d rather keep the community feel homegrown, and not artificially inseminated (with money).

To bring it all around again, kbin and the fediverse works because it is homegrown and community based. Waaaaaaaay back when, Reddit was the same, but being centralized, that will cause problems, thus the problems of the past months. kbin and the fediverse at large (not so much just the AP protocol) will continue to succeed without corpo takeover and influence. It can breed discussion and community without trying to make money off of it. Give them an inch, and they will redefine what an inch is so that it includes all inches in perpetuity.

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and thus the entire issue with reddit. The glory of the fediverse is that there can be competition. You do not work for Disney, you do not own Disney. The community is not yours because you got to it first. If you want to own a Disney forum, start your own website.

We should not be allowing FB/IG to gain their foothold on the work of other people, yet again, so they can eventually take control once it’s too late to stop them. Especially not because it would help your own ego and foothold on a community you do not own.

Considering I don’t really think they did the other 3 times, I’m going to say probably not. To me the series ends with Devil’s Hands. The rest is fine once a year, but it’s not on an almost continuous loop like S1-5

Centralized power in the hands of a few is a bad thing. People have been complaining about power-tripping Reddit power mods for years.

Because what happens when they don’t mod to the standard the community wants?

Idk, I haven’t paid a dime in over 12 years and never saw an ad (with blocking). Never received spam or had features removed or shitified. Lastfm is one of the few places to have done it right imo. Don’t get me wrong, self hosting is great, but self host the music before you care about the stats

What’s wrong with last.fm? I’ve used them since 2007 and imo they’re way better than something like Spotify. Lastfm is free.

maybe in the UK, but US radio is trash.

Ditch Plex and get Jellyfin. Use Symfonium to play your music on your phone.

The radio is not an answer. I stopped listening to it in 2006 when I installed a new car radio that had an AUX input for my iPod. I recently had to use a car that didn’t have BT audio and was forced to use FM. It was horrific. The same playlists from 2006, but with longer and more frequent ads. I tried every station I could find and it was the same deal.

Symfonium has been amazing! The only thing I was sad to lose from Plex when I switched to the superior FOSS alternative Jellyfin was Plexamp. There was a Finamp app but it was missing a lot and didn’t work too well. Symfonium on the other hand has been a dream come true.

This isn’t reddit, read the whole post before suggesting just another streaming service.

Spotify just shows you want they want you to listen to, just like any other streaming service. I’ve found more cool music within the past few years thanks to music communities than I ever did from Spotify, not to mention the giant amount of music that isn’t even on Spotify to begin with.