Yeah, I think so. You can try for fun any Mastodon handle to see what it does.

I don’t know which platforms beside Mastodon they are currently supporting. What type did you try?

I started correcting POIs in my area using the Every Door app.

What’s missing for OSM is a central page where you can log in with your OSM account and easily add or edit POIs, covering all possible attributes. The goal should be to make OSM more relevant to businesses and organizations, so that they start editing their own information themselves.

Editing directly via the OSM website is extremely complicated and too technical. No normal user can handle it. Apps and websites that already offer POI editing only cover a small range of attributes and are missing a lot of important information.

Autor über PeerTube:

Man legt ein Konto an und danach noch einen Kanal. Warum das zwei verschiedene Dinge sind, erschließt sich niemandem, der nicht vorher weiß, wie es darunter funktioniert.

Das ist bei YouTube schon immer(?) so und das gibt es seit 2005 und hat Monopolstellung. Mehrere Kanäle unter dem gleichen Account ist übrigens auch kein Bug, sondern ein Feature.

Die Youtube Logik, wie sie auch von Peertube verwendet wird, finde auch ich nicht optimal gelöst fürs Fediverse. Aktuell müssen bei Peertube Bands z.B. erst ein Konto anlegen, welches eine Fediverse Adresse wird. In den meistens Fällen wird hier logischerweise der Bandname verwendet. Um nun Videos hochladen zu können, muss ein Kanal angelegt werden, der wiederum eine weitere Fediverse Adresse generiert. Hierfür muss dann ein anderer Name als der Bandname verwendet werden. Im Fediverse schwirren dann also zwei Fediverse Adressen rum, obwohl nur eine reichen würde. Das verwirrt die User. In den meisten Fällen wollen User einfach nur Videos in einen Kanal hochladen…

As long as Mojeek does not index sites properly, the search results remain useless.

My experience with Mojeek is not so good. The search index does not contain many pages, even those from websites that have existed for decades. Often only the home pages are indexed. Mojeek is currently unusable for me!

Sadly I just found out that Qobuz is using Amazon Web Services (AWS). So using Qobuz means giving money to Amazon… What a shame!

Regarding underwear, you can take a look at SCHIESSER. The company was founded in Germany in 1875 and has always stood for quality. The company has been Israeli-owned since 2011. But the company location is still Germany.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schiesser or https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schiesser

Mittlerweile haben ja schon einige große Onlinehändler einen Marktplatz in ihren Online-Shop integriert.

Auf anhieb fallen mir da z.B. ein:
Conrad.de Kaufland.de
Media Markt Otto.de
Voelkner.de
…

Für Bücher und Medien gibt es z.B. auch noch Booklooker.de

To get a better impression, all that would be needed is for a few indie artists to disclose how their payout rate is calculated down to 1000 streams per provider…

I’m still waiting for a streaming provider that pays so fairly that the subscription fees are distributed proportionally to what the user has actually heard. For example, if I pay 12 €/month and have only listened to one artist in the whole month, it should be obvious that this artist gets, for example, 70% of the 12 € and the streaming provider gets the remaining 30%. But I’ll probably have to wait forever for that…

And it turns out all services are intransparent. There are no hard facts and numbers. It’s massively complicated how they calculate these payouts and seems nobody publishes the exact maths behind it.

Yes, it is indeed a problem that almost no one discloses official numbers. Qobuz at least did this once: https://community.qobuz.com/press-de/qobuz-legt-als-erster-akteur-in-der-musikindustrie-seine-durchschnittliche-vergtung-pro-stream

There are some news articles with claims and speculation, but they’re all based on the same thing and mainly copy-paste each other.

Yes, I agree with you! Of course, these articles and figures are not reliable. Here is an article with payout numbers, which also goes into more detail about how the numbers came about: https://dynamoi.com/de/learn/statistics/what-streaming-platforms-actually-pay-per-stream

Sure, they are an option, too!

Yes, but their payout is only slightly higher than Spotify…

Here’s a good read about streaming payouts in 2025: https://rebelmusicdistribution.com/2025/08/22/which-streaming-service-pays-the-most-per-1000-streams-in-2025-top-5-platforms/

Qobuz (who payout the most beside Napster) is a European company.

Besides the political aspects… The main reason why Spotify should be boycotted is the fact that they exploit artists (small and large artists receive virtually nothing for their streamed music) and flood the market with AI-generated music…

Have you already had a look at https://metager.de/?

Bandwagon.fm is a great project, but unfortunately, ActivityPub/Federation is not yet reliably implemented and has too many bugs.

For example, if you follow a Pixelfed account and then unfollow, the follow remains on Pixelfed!

In my opinion, the ActivityPub part of bandwagon.fm is unfortunately not yet production-ready and should be tested and fixed more thoroughly.

Not everybody is so kind. In Germany, for example, lawyers are quite quick to issue cease-and-desist letters, which always involve costs. I’ve heard of Friendica instances that have already run into legal problems because, for example, copyrighted images were posted/federated. You’re being a bit too naive about that.

The lack of monetization is certainly one reason. On the other hand, YouTube was already successful long before monetization existed.