It's 2023, and SoundCloud still caps the number of accounts you can follow to 2000 while providing no tools to root out accounts that have gone inactive.

. . .

Related:

Q: It's 2023, so are people even using SoundCloud?

A: Yes they are.

@disquiet have you come across audio.com yet? I've just added some stuff - seems like a good alternative (although without the user base yet)

@grahamdunning @disquiet

My thoughts are - it looks nice, but somehow to seems to be too good to be true. Who pays for that site that is "completely free [with] no hidden costs, pro accounts or ads", and how?

I don't want to scare anyone away, but given that there has been some controversy about its owners Muse in the past¹ I personally would proceed with caution. I've been bitten enough by #Enshittification this year already...

¹ See eg https://hackaday.com/2021/07/13/muse-group-continues-tone-deaf-handling-of-audacity/

Muse Group Continues Tone Deaf Handling Of Audacity

When we last checked in on the Audacity community, privacy-minded users of the free and open source audio editor were concerned over proposed plans to add telemetry reporting to the decades old ope…

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@axwax @grahamdunning @disquiet

Are they using a change from GPLv2 to GPLv3 as a way to lure all committers on to signing a CLA which will *also* allow them to dual-license with a closed license?

Surely, they can't be _that_ evil...

#closedForkWarning #openSource #cla