if you don’t like listening to music then sure it is tedious.

Of course, you know me so so well.

Basically you want to be handed a list of stuff you are already going to like with no effort on your part, that isn’t really tedium, more laziness on your part.

See? That was 100% TOTALLY what my comment was about, glad to see your reading comprehension works so well you have no need to assume things to make them fit into your argument.

There are more ways to listen and discover music than ever before. In the past you had mainly radio or word of mouth and even then your exposure was extremely narrow based on the radio stations tastes. You now have so many other avenues for exploration and discovery.

There’s no need to comment about this, since you already assumed and decided for me and you must be right because YOU MUST BE RIGHT, so I’ll just leave you and your right assumptions to believe whatever you want so… gOoD vIbEs OnLy, amirite?
I’ll just go to listen to music I like BECAUSE I DON’T LIKE LISTENING TO MUSIC.

Basically proving my point about it being tedious but trying to force some hopium into it.

I’m not going to pay for a service for ONE reason only, but yeah, I use the free version on Spotify for the weekly discovery and then I don’t open it till the next week, sometimes there’s some good shit… Most of the time there isn’t.

Deezer used to have a nice discovery algorithm, then they shitted on it and then they made it fully pay to use so I haven’t it since then.

I’ve even tried some websites recommended on lemmy, not just the usual services, but I’ve got a similar outcome anyway

While I agree, I’d like to object a little to this:

an inability to find things you like from a selection that is only ever expanding and becoming more diverse as time goes on.

It’s extremely tedious to look for new music, since most algorithms seems to fixate on “oh you like this song? Here, let me suggest all the discography of the artist and these artists that are barely similar yet non or their songs sound like that one you liked” and radio stations only play what they get paid for.

If you like a specific genre it might be easier, but for someone who likes songs instead of genres or artists… It’s a fucking pain.

Bough some new basic clothing to wear while I’m still unemployed, just enough to not look like I’m getting ready to end it all.
Also ordered the parts to build me a little Pinky Vape, will take a while to be sent here but I can wait.

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I really really doubt the part about the content based on my interests part, I’ve tried Lemmy, Mastodon and Pixelfed, none of the has any content that I care about enough to join a community but they have way too much US politics (WAY TOO MUCH), so it really doesn’t encourages me to try anything new on the fediverse (like Loops, picking an instance, creating user just to find no content for me?).
I’d like to know how good or bad the instance block works on PieFed, because here on lemmy I still see hexbear posts that other users crosspost, even when my instance already defederated that instance.

You indeed made the good choice, Lemmy.cafe is the one

Yeah, it only took me 4 tries and I still am ready to jump ship if needed.

Why not use both Lemmy and another platform?

Already am, but at least on Reddit the mods can pretend to ban/control the propaganda accounts, but over here they are the only ones posting content (for my country) and that’s tiring… the rest of the content is the same here and Reddit, so I feel more inclined to stay on Reddit since I don’t really post anything anyway (I don’t even comment over there anymore) and Lemmy feels like something I rather delete more and more… been thinking about PieFed, but the same problem as everything Fediverse, I have to pick a goddamn instance and I don’t have energy for that for now.

This, the survivor bias is absurdly high around lemmy.
This is my fourth instance because, for some reason, it’s extremely hard to find an instance that defeds the 3 main propaganda instances, allows porn/hentai, piracy talk, weed and isn’t too pissy about downvotes.

Still I am thinking about leaving lemmy due to a complete lack of content for my country other than government propaganda… And I don’t feel comfortable creating a community for the same reason and there doesn’t seem to be anyone else from my country so… Nobody who cared about it (or who could help me mod).