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Posted by twistslider 7 hours ago

Last.fm is now independent(support.last.fm)
539 points | 150 commentspage 5
BadBadJellyBean 6 hours ago|
I honestly forgot last.fm was a thing. But good for them that they have independence now.
MadrasTh0rn 2 hours ago||
Love last.fm

may it live a long life

whalesalad 6 hours ago||
115,000 scrobbles: https://www.last.fm/user/whalesalad

I really only ever used it so that a girl I liked would be able to see what I was listening to. She commented on my page. We ended up getting together for a few years. I miss my youth.

retired 6 hours ago||
I miss the internet of old, where you would meet up with a cute girl you met online and she turned out to be a 39 year old man from Wisconsin.
tclancy 5 hours ago|||
Hey, we had some good times together you and me.
whalesalad 6 hours ago|||
same tbh
tomashubelbauer 6 hours ago|||
I think Last.fm might have been a better friend finding and dating app than any of its contemporaries or anything that came after. Seems like everyone in this thread or anyone I know IRL has a story of making a good connection with someone via it. I know I'll always cherish the people I got to know on there.
whalesalad 6 hours ago||
Music taste is probably the all time best indicator of compatibility tbh. You can go to shows together. You can jam out in the car together.
Semaphor 5 hours ago||
Sitting at 239,447, next to no scrobbling from 2017-2022, and I deleted my old account because of a piracy panic, so nothing before 2008. https://www.last.fm/user/YoshiSlen
kgwxd 3 hours ago||
Clicked join: "Your request was blocked. To protect our website, our security firewall has flagged this request as potentially unsafe."

Linux, Firefox, uBlock Origin. Nothing else special. I've really been looking for an alternative too. Thanks for at least showing me what to expect before sign up. Guess I'll pass.

superkuh 2 hours ago||
It was such a hassle exporting my data from last.fm to libre.fm when they were bought out in 2007 (and then all the founders left in 2009). But I'm glad I did it. While it's nice that last.fm is "independent" now, they're still for-profit and probably should be avoided.
Scene_Cast2 6 hours ago||
I remember Last.fm's value proposition was 1) discovery and 2) community. (1) is (mostly, for most people) covered by "feed" algorithms of Spotify and YouTube.

I wonder how they're going to position themselves now.

AdmiralAsshat 6 hours ago||
As someone who used to hang out on various music forums...a human recommendation based on careful analysis of your last.fm scrobbles was infinitely more useful and accurate than anything Pandora/YouTube/Spotify/Tidal ever recommended me. Humans can infer not just what you like, but what you don't like.
cesarvarela 6 hours ago|||
To me, it always was the scrobbler. I've been tracking what I listen to for 15+ years.
TFNA 5 hours ago|||
Community largely died out already by 2012. Originally Last.fm enabled a lot of IRL socializing, connecting hipsters who lived in the same town and listened to the same music. Changes in music-listening habits, the atomization of tastes in a world where so much was available, and CBS not having a clue what to do with the site -- that killed Last.fm except for just a way to track one's own plays.
micromacrofoot 6 hours ago||
a recommendation algorithm that isn't a box of pain they sell to advertisers?
desireco42 6 hours ago||
And I try to "Start Now"

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:)

I think this is fantastic change and wish them the best, this is probably just a small hickup I experienced and I wil try again later.

BTW, I recently cancelled my youtube premium, it was just too expensive. Never was subscribed to Spotify, so I need different ways to listen to music.

jauntywundrkind 6 hours ago||
Last.fm & in particular audioscrobbling has been such an amazing joy to have in the world. Music is so important to me, and it's amazing having this system to help see over time what friends and I myself enjoy.

These days, for auduiscrobbling, I recommend folks use either teal.fm (which alas is somewhat DIY or find-a-friend for their API service) or rocksky.app. There's a better credible exit, as it's based on atproto/Bluesky protocols, and a richer world of apps & interconnectivitiws emerging.

simonw 6 hours ago||
This is awesome! Anyone know who the humans behind the new company are?
ChrisArchitect 5 hours ago|
Some previous discussions on this note:

Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web: 2002

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46266875

Last.fm turns 20

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33722862

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