Yes, I've become paranoid in my old age.
I credit last.fm with showing me a lot of the music I love, it’s the perfect recommendation model and still the best social music platform so I’m definitely rooting for you to improve on it!
> What is Rocksky?
> Rocksky is a decentralized, open-source music tracking and discovery platform built on the AT Protocol. It works like Last.fm but publishes your listening history directly to your Bluesky account.
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Can we start a trend where we tell people what the thing is and what it does without making them dig around to find it?
I don't use Bluesky and don't plan to start. Rocksky really isn't for me.
While it's not like it was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard,' this whole experience could have been concluded a lot faster if the project page simply described the function of the thing in a forthright fashion.
With the former, I build the app with my own API_KEY and SHARED_SECRET, then the actual user has to add their username/password, which gets stored in the Apple keychain.
With the latter, I don't need a API KEY built into the app, and they just login with a username and a token.
Would I be right that I could just duplicate the listenbrainz code with that new endpoint and it would work the same way?
^ https://ozeki.hu/p_3653-at-command-guide-for-gsm-modem-netwo...
Apparently, the OP refers to <https://atproto.com/> per the FAQ at <https://docs.rocksky.app/faq-918661m0#what-is-the-at-protoco...>
So it's unreliable by design? There's no way I'd switch from Last.fm or ListenBrainz to something that will /dev/null my scrobbles at its discretion.
I ditched all music services and now navidrome+narjo combo, works perfectly well, flac, and with reverse proxy exposing the server there’s no need to vpn or anything, it’s a drop in replacement, and free.
However, what I don't understand is why there isn't just a single Dockerfile that does it all. `docker build` is step 4 or something.
And that's kind of my point: The description of what the thing does is so brief that neither of us can figure it out.
Afterward, there's a ton of instruction on how to install it. Including a link to use it on...someone else's sandbox, I guess? Which sure is neat and that may be a platform that I want to play with for my own purposes, but... the point isn't a sandbox, is it?
Or is that the point? Who could tell?
Anyway, I'm not installing new-to-me software that is so detrimentally-vague about what it is actually meant to do as this is.
(I mean: I already know about last.fm -- I've known about last.fm for decades now and even used to give them a few dollars every month. I still don't know what this thing is supposed to be, or why it exists, or what real advantages it might have. I strongly suspect that it could all be summarized very well in one or two decently-written paragraphs, and it seems very lazy to not simply write them.)