From a privacy standpoint, i guess. I want to support open scrobbling with listenbrainz and the account isn’t directly linked to a real acc. Why shouldn’t I/ why don’t you?
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Social engineering. The more information they have about you, the easier you are to immitate.
The threat isn’t in any one piece of information about you; it’s in the corpus of knowledge, the profile they can build. Your tastes in music - at the granularity of not only what you listen to, but how much, and at what times - can help narrow down:
- how old you are
- where (in the world, and maybe to the time zone) you live
- your mother tongue
- probably your socio-economic status
These are just the things I can tyink of off the top of my head, and I’m not in infosec.
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Depends on how much you let them link it back to you, but you’re absolutely right: social media is a privacy nightmare. It can be mitigated; pick a Lemmy instance that doesn’t require an email, and don’t give out any identifying information, or just lurk. Many of us have multiple accounts on different servers, with carefully segregated personas. You do what you can; OP asked why (or why not) scrob. I see no reason to give out that information, only to give a company more information they can sell.
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All of that info is already available for anyone who has a government ID or census record
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I do. While I could’ve self-hosted it easily, I’m just consciously OK with it being public.
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I scrobble to a self-hosted maloja instance. No fear of your data ever disappearing if a service goes down!
You could scrobble to listenbrainz as well. Why not supporting it?
My data stays with me. I support Musicbrainz itself plenty
Because nobody cared about what I was listening to when I did. It didn’t get me anything useful.
Why would I care what other people are listening to?
I’ve discovered many good artists this way
If you listen to X and there is another guy listening to X and Y, one could recommend Y to you. Not only that, you actually have an influence which artist is at the top. You get a database of your listens and anyone, including you, can have a look at mass audio scrobble data.
Why should I?
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But when I log in via my Musicbrainz account it just loads indefinitely. Seems to be a bug with some server cache on their side at least someone said so in the forum. Maybe it works with another account.
That sucks. Maybe try another acc. Maybe browser config problem
