Oh yeah. I haven't seen that video and thanks for the recommendation, but I lived through Clear Channel and the rest scarfing up all my local radio stations and turning them to shit just as the internet was beginning to really catch on. They made it easy for the iPod revolution to happen, playing the same garbage on every station.
Music has been predominantly bland for 20 years or more, in the mainstream channels. It's depressing.
And I want to say I just got older and so mainstream music isn't for me, but... it's bland. I'm not like older people aghast over Marilyn Manson. I'm older and fucking bored with how lame music is now.
My trust in anything on the internet has eroded over the last ten years. Information, news, offers...it's all pud-pulling capitalist circlejerking and the most cynical propaganda imaginable.
I was thinking the same thing. We've actually surpassed Apple on desktop. I know we're gonna laughingly say "year of the Linux desktop," but we have to honestly look how far we've come in a relatively short time.
As long as Meta can't infect the rest of the fediverse, or track or monetize it...fine. I just never, ever want Meta shit on my timeline.