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This is not that, it's thousand of hits a minute on random endpoints, basically scraping everything all the time.

Those botnets are hitting random endpoints thousands of times a minute. The problem is that each time they switch to a different residential IP so that they are untraceable. That's…

We can't have a free internet that does not demand identification and data collection as a price to pay.

MetaBrainz ended up rolling out their own tool, none of the other common suggestions being quite appropriate.

Ah, yes, if the mafia comes to threaten your business for a protection racket, just abandon your shop, simple !

> De-enshittify by any means necessary! Damn straight! https://blog.metabrainz.org/2024/11/28/pissed-off-by-spotify...

Artist similarity is calculated from the listening history of all users. Basically if many people listen to artist X and artist Y within a short window of time, that counts towards…

I also want to add that MetaBrainz (the non-profit foundation that MusicBrainz and Picard are the base of) also have ListenBrainz, a music discovery platform that we built because …

We're also working on that very same idea on our open-source music discovery platform ListenBrainz: https://listenbrainz.org/explore/lb-radio/ Basically because we had the same gri…