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New merch drop!

monkey's beautiful summit designs are now live! Previously only available to #MetaBrainz summit attendees, they have now been adjusted for cool daily wear for cool people.

Choose your fighter: synth, bollywood, psychedelic, vaporwave or black metal
https://www.redbubble.com/people/metabrainz/shop

razze Mar 13

https://blog.metabrainz.org/2026/03/05/remembering-mayhem/

#metabrainz #opensource #listenbrainz #mayhem

N-gated Hacker News Jan 13

😩 Oh no, watch out! The #AI #bots have discovered *robots.txt*—and promptly ignored it. 🤖💥 Apparently, #MetaBrainz can't have nice things like basic web traffic because tech bros are too polite to ask for a full download. 🚫📉
https://blog.metabrainz.org/2025/12/11/we-cant-have-nice-things-because-of-ai-scrapers/ #robots.txt #techbros #webtraffic #HackerNews #ngated

We can’t have nice things… because of AI scrapers – MetaBrainz Blog

candide.xyz May 3, 2025

@ListenBrainz @metabrainz Is there an easy way of bulk deleting listens from a particular source/channel/artist in #ListenBrainz?

Pano Scrobbler has been tracking and sending my internet radio listens, and I have zero clue on what day it happened to delete them from the feed. I only realized the issue when I saw the radio station in my stats...

#scrobbling #musicbrainz #metabrainz #panoscrobbler

𝙴𝚛𝚒𝚌 Apr 5, 2025

First three months of 2025 - definitely more listens than the final quarter of 2024; but still relatively low.

@metabrainz ListenBrainz used to gather the stats!

#music #metabrainz #listenbrainz #musicbrainz

marc [sustain release] ✅Feb 17, 2025

I've just added "Undefined Lovers" by #Steppenkind (12'', 2022) on #Maakuda Records to the @musicbrainz database.

💿 http://www.musicbrainz.org/release/513a7be3-fa3d-43de-9852-737f480c1181

#krautrock #metabrainz #musicbrainz #vinyl

Release “Undefined Lovers” by Steppenkind - MusicBrainz

Format: 12" Vinyl, Year: 2022, Label: Maakuda Records (001), Barcode: 0634240150968, Length: 40:50

Tommi 🤯Feb 14, 2025

Happy I Love Free Software Day! 💕

Unfortunately, this year I could not join nor organize any in-person celebration, BUT of course I want to share my gratitude to the many, countless #FreeSoftware services I don’t merely use, but actually depend on.

Last year, I decided to focus only on #YunoHost, because it would have been crazy to list all the projects I use and I love.

This time, even if I will most certainly forget someone, I am challenging myself to mention all the #LibreSoftware my life is powered by.

Without further ado, THANK YOU to:

@yunohost, for powering Nebuchadnezzar
@fedora, for running my beloved #Framework laptop
@frameworkcomputer, for designing and building repairable, #Linux-friendly and truly open hardware
@gnome and @GTK, for being just gorgeous
@calyxos (thus @LineageOS), for powering my #Fairphone5
#Obtainium, for making me directly download apps on my phone, and @fdroidorg for distributing them
#AuroraStore, for proxying the download of apps I am doomed to get from Google Play
@element, for developing #Synapse, even though the new proprietary Synapse Pro is VERY PROBLEMATIC AND DISAPPOINTING
#Fractal, for being the most beautiful and awesome #Matrix client ever
@signalapp, for keeping me connected with the people I love
@Mastodon, for also maintaining a feature-packed experimental fork (#GlitchSoc), that is what Pan runs
#Tuba and #Moshidon, for being the most beautiful and awesome #Mastodon clients ever
#Firefox, for still remaining the best possible #browser choice, despite #Mozilla’s governance messiness
@openstreetmap, for allowing us to find the right path, both literally and metaphorically!
@organicmaps, for being the simplest, cleanest, yet feature-rich #OSM client and navigation app
@protonvpn, for making me browse safely from/to anywhere in the planet and @protonprivacy #ProtonMail, for hosting my email, despite the latest alarming political statements…
@libreoffice, for allowing me to draft documents with ease, the last of which was my #CV
#LanguageTool, for preventing me from making embarassing spelling mistakes
@photoprism, for safely storing and indexing all my photographic memories, on Aby, and for providing stellar and friendly support too!
#Actual, for moderating the very likely risk of ending up completely broke, since it forces me to manage my finances consciously and coherently
@readeck, for storing and sorting ALL my varied and overwhelming inputs
@nextcloud, for storing and synchronizing my data, for its #calendar, its #tasks, and all its awesome apps
#Rustdesk, for preventing my friends and family members from going crazy, by allowing me to remotely connect to their devices and directly address the issues they have
#Listmonk, for sending out my newsletter
@eleventy, for powering all the websites I maintain, above all the virtual representation of my mind, and for being the only reason why I resist and try to continue learning #JavaScript
@forgejo, for giving us a chance to truly control and collectively develop the sources of our software, but most importantly @Codeberg, for RESISTING, RESISTING, RESISTING, despite the hatred and attacks nazi assholes throw at them
@musicbrainz for keeping music knowledge open and free, and @ListenBrainz for scrobbling the crazy music I listen to
The @fsfe, for promoting this celebration and fighting the good fight!

Lastly, but most importantly, the biggest thank you goes to all the free software libraries and dependencies the above mentioned #software are made of/built with, including #C, #JavaScript, #Python, #Rust, and all community-maintained programming languages.

I am super sorry if I forgot someone!

#OpenSource #ILoveFS #SoftwareFreedom #Fairphone #Android #LineageOS #FSFE #OpenStreetMap #PhotoPrism #LibreOffice #Readeck #Eleventy #11ty #GNOME #Signal #forgejo #Codeberg #MusicBrainz #ListenBrainz #MetaBrainz

I Love Free Software Day - FSFE

On the annual “I Love Free Software Day” we express our gratitude to all Free Software contributors. Join this special event and become part of a lovely community! #ilovefs

FSFE - Free Software Foundation Europe