I’m skeptical of Songtradr but BandCamp standing against AI and continuing BandCamp Fridays is still a bigger positive than any other streaming service (even though BC is more of a purchasing platform).
No PE is good but they’re not making evil moves yet compared to Spotify or even Distros like DistroKid.
Personally, Epic Games owning them was the best thing possible as they knew nothing about it but that worked? It was truly a golden era.
I’ve been ignoring my phone (I work in sales so I don’t have much outside of my outreach) and reading more. I deleted all social media in 2024. I am slowly putting music onto my phone and soon to stop streaming entirely (I stopped Spotify years ago as I make music and hate them). I do think I’ll keep BandCamp as they’re cool so far but I feel the biggest way to fight is to take your attention back.
Life wasn’t this fast and anxiety driven before they shoveled these apps and content into our faces. I feel it messed with my CNS but who truly knows.
Weirdly enough, I’ve been in a few places that have different schedules. Where I’m current at, most people are out late drinking so early mornings are when the annoying people are asleep but when I moved out west, it was reverse as no one wanted to be out late due to dangerous roads at night in the mountains. So I was a night owl.
I’m just up when people aren’t because I dislike people.
Also I work with people daily.