Ooooh, related: https://www.piki.nyc/

Using Piki data, we find that while the like rate increases monotonically with artist popularity on Spotify, this does not hold true for superlike rates

This company’s product seems to be music recommendations. We need something like this, but open source and federated.

Being able to direct my own reccomender system, in order for it to be alligned with my goals and not with my addictive tendencies

AGREE! There are options for controlling the data side of things, Lemmy, Mastodon, Jellyfin, torrents, but I’ve definitely noticed the recommendation side of things is basically non-existent. What I miss the most from Spotify or Netflix isn’t the music or movies, it’s the recommendations. There’s a ton of content outside the megacorps, but we don’t have a good way to find it.

It would be awesome if we had an algorithm that we could control. We could tune it to whatever we want, instead of letting these giant megacorps shove their shit in front of us.

I like that Migadu gives you a ton of control over your email experience. You can create unlimited users, have unlimited domains, create unlimited aliases, sending identities, they have custom routing features, etc. The backend/management panel seems like it was made with techies in mind. The actual email users don’t have to worry about any of those knobs though.

two guys running email?

Is it? I can’t tell from the about me. It says “In 2014, two of us, Michael Bruderer and Dejan Strbac, started…”, but nothing else on the page talks about the size of the company. It started as two people, but is it currently two people? Anyone know?

no 2FA support

The webmail client does have 2FA, but when connecting via client there is no 2FA. Although, not sure what this would look like. Would you enter a TOTP every time you want to connect to the IMAP server? Or do you mean more like an OAuth2 flow, like Gmail, and that asks for your TOTP?

I actually haven’t gotten around to playing with purelymail. Not sure if they handle this differently. What service are you thinking about?

purelymail, or if one guy running email by himself makes you feel uncomfortable, migadu

Ah, ok. I was barking up the wrong tree.

I tried a random Writefreely instance and it was extremely barebones and had poor markdown styling. It gave me the impression that Writefreely is more for publishing short stories, rather than technical content.

(Is that the point of Writefreely?)

I’ve been using LibreOffice more these days for writing, slides, and spreadsheets. I can’t remember now the last time I used a Google app for this.