Nelson N.Mar 3, 2025
Pete Prodoehl 🍕

Resistance can be as simple as using certain terms:

"online video" instead of "YouTube video".

"online search" instead of "Google Search" (or "do a search" instead of "google it".)

"music playlist" instead of "Spotify playlist".

Do not give these company any free advertising by using their names.

Do not make them the default term for something.

Feb 28, 2025 at 6:59pmWeb
Show threadPete Prodoehl 🍕Feb 28, 2025

Also, fuck Spotify! While I am trying more and more to *not* use Google as often at least I can say I've sent no money or goodwill to Spotify.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/spotify-military-industrial-complex-daniel-ek-prima-materia-helsing

How Spotify Is Quietly Supporting the Military-Industrial Complex

Unbeknownst to most users, Spotify has a secret endeavor—backing the efforts of war.

In These Times
Show threadMad AlexFeb 28, 2025
@rasterweb Never had Spotify, never will.
Show threadpawkypaulMar 1, 2025

@rasterweb
A reminder that #SoundCloud is a European-based alternative to #spotify

This track still gets me every time (correct link this time!)
https://m.soundcloud.com/declanwelshandthedecadentwest/walk-a-mile-in-gaza

Walk A Mile In Gaza

Stream Walk A Mile In Gaza by Declan Welsh and The Decadent West on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud.

SoundCloud
Show thread(Matthew)=> 🏳️‍🌈🇿🇦🎮💻📖Jul 8, 2025
@paulb3017 @rasterweb Not a lot of billboard top 40s artists are actually on Soundcloud, or even just artists under a label. It's only an alternative if it actually has music people listen to. You could swap to Deezer or Tidal or YouTube Music or whatever other music streaming streaming service but like, everything has the same issue because the problem is with the business model. Suppose the best you can do is set up a plex/jellyfin server with your personal collection.
Show threadPete Prodoehl 🍕Jul 8, 2025

@mdstevens0612 @paulb3017 "the best you can do is set up a plex/jellyfin server with your personal collection..."

And I did!

I don't use any streaming service. I occasionally find music on YouTube, download it, convert it, and add it to my own library.

(Granted, I don't tend to listen to top 40s or pop music.)

Show threadAtariusMar 1, 2025
@rasterweb schrottify ist crap. Leute kauft Euch wieder physische Medien für Euren Musikkonsum. Ihr könnt die dann immer noch digitalisieren und auf nen USB Stick oder direkt aufs Handy ziehen. Die meisten Künstler*innen liefern inzwischen MP3 Downloadcodes mit. Und davon abgesehen ist es etwas völlig anderes, z.B. eine Schallplatte aufzulegen und bewusst zu hören, nicht sich durchzuskippen. Zusätzlich geht Ihr bitte auf Konzerte und holt Euch Sachen vom Merch. Musik stirbt
Show threadmedthepirateMar 1, 2025
@rasterweb started building my cd collection back up recently. Nearly ready to cut the cord. I didn’t know that about spotify, I just had a wobble when I thought it and realised I didn’t own any music
Show threadmedthepirateMar 1, 2025
@rasterweb Discogs and Bandcamp are great btw
Show threadThe ViewMar 2, 2025
@rasterweb So? No need to be righteous where it's meaningless.
Show threadjudeMar 8, 2025
@rasterweb they also don't pay shit to artists who make their platform
Show threadChuck MillerSep 7, 2025
@rasterweb I've got a personal record collection. I've got a personal CD collection. The music of today sucks eggs. Therefore I have no need for Spotify in any way shape or form.
Show threadPete Prodoehl 🍕Sep 7, 2025
@chuckthewriter I’ve got a decades old music collection that I’ve been adding new bands from the last few years to… it doesn’t all suck! You might find some gems.
Show threadChuck MillerSep 7, 2025
@rasterweb That's entirely possible. It's just, sometimes when I do listen to a country music station, I joke with my girlfriend that you can't go four songs on a modern country music channel without somebody singing about drinking whiskey. And most times we can't get through three songs.
Show threadPete Prodoehl 🍕Sep 7, 2025
@chuckthewriter The only “country” I ever listen to is Johnny Cash. 🙂
Show threadTamamiOct 13
@rasterweb I'm really sad that no one seems to remember about the F-you Spotify! days when Neil Young left. But then, I just learned that Neil Young had returned. Sigh. I'll never go back though!
Show threadPete Prodoehl 🍕Oct 14
@Tamami He’s back? Aw, fuck. Still never using Spotify.
Show threadTamamiOct 14
@rasterweb I have to say that I was disappointed with him.
Show threadelyFeb 28, 2025
@rasterweb
Same like Mr. X said on X: Mr X said on socialmedia...
Show threadDavid Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)Feb 28, 2025
@rasterweb And, dear $DEITY, please stop saying that you called an Uber. You called a taxi. You are riding in a taxi. The person in the front is a taxi driver. Just because you used a mobile phone app to call the taxi doesn’t make it a special magic not-a-taxi thing.
Show threadEndyMar 1, 2025
@david_chisnall @rasterweb Legally, Uber and Lyft are "ridesharing".
Show threadDavid Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)Mar 1, 2025
@egoldblatt @rasterweb They certainly claim that. In a lot of places, you must be a licensed taxi driver to use their app. They are just another taxi dispatcher. And, since the start of COVID, they seem to have dropped the option to share a ride with someone else who is going the same way.
Show threadEndyMar 1, 2025
@david_chisnall @rasterweb Lyft certainly has, but in NJ, I can usually take a shared Uber
Show threadsoaprootMar 2, 2025
@david_chisnall @egoldblatt @rasterweb "I called a car" is perhaps the simplest terminology. Getting into the details of regulatory bodies and licenses seems a bit odd, at least to my ears, for casual conversation.
Show threadRichard W. Woodley ELBOWS UP 🇨🇦🌹🚴‍♂️📷 🗺️Jul 8, 2025

@david_chisnall @rasterweb

In some jurisdictions the differences are considerable starting with taxi drivers being unionized and taxi companies being locally regulated.

Show threadSpaceLifeFormFeb 28, 2025

@rasterweb

The reverse of cleaning your xerox with klennex.

Show threadpibebtolFeb 28, 2025
@rasterweb ohh, I love that!
In my friendsgroup, we coined the term "vevishovi" for "vertical viral short video" to refer to one of those videos from the different platforms, be it YouTube shorts, or instagram reels, or TikTok's.
Spread the word! Would love to see that used more wildly! #vevishovi
Show threadmarciano jonesFeb 28, 2025
@rasterweb i believe spotify is a european product. Still we should be less dependent on tech corps and be more self sufficient
Show threadPetrovMar 1, 2025
@rasterweb Hope this helps
Show threadEndyMar 1, 2025
@rasterweb When it's a video hosted on YT, it's a YT video. When it's on DailyMotion, I call it that. Same as literally anything else. As far as playlists, anything that isn't an M3U (or M3U8) file I can play in VLC is just a stream. I can stream as easily off Pandora as anything else.
Show threadjailandradeMar 1, 2025
@rasterweb USA instead of America. The continent doesn’t follow that country and we want to stop their influence in the world. Words matter.
Show threadPete Prodoehl 🍕Mar 1, 2025
@jailandrade I've long said that there is no America... There is North America, and South America, but my globe doesn't have a placed named "America".
Show threadjailandradeMar 1, 2025
@rasterweb America definitively exists. You can ask any Mexican or latinoamerican and they will tell you that America is our continent. It’s the land of our ancient civilizations and even after the fall of the USA will still be our continent.
Show threadDr Suzanne she/herMar 1, 2025
@jailandrade @rasterweb or Indigenous person.
Show threadVolineMar 1, 2025
@rasterweb
I cannot bring myself to call them the “Democratic Party” (sic). I just call them the Dems.
Show threadEpistomaiMar 1, 2025
@rasterweb I never adopted those corporate terms, I've always used generic terms
Show threadity [unit X-69] - VIOLENT FUCKMar 1, 2025

@rasterweb If folx use a company name enough times without associating it with the company the company can lose rights to their trademark

Imagine if google lost the rights to the word google

Show threadash Mar 1, 2025
@ity @rasterweb it's been a -long- while since a trademark was last lost to genericisation, I wonder if a current court would do that in reality, given gestures at the US
Show threadJohn🥛Mar 1, 2025
@rasterweb theres a big obsession with Spotify amongst the music media.
Show threadmedthepirateMar 1, 2025
@rasterweb “DuckDuckGo it”
Show threadColinMar 1, 2025
@rasterweb kids have been saying “search it up” for a few years now. They’re gonna be OK ☺️
Show threadGemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐Mar 1, 2025
@rasterweb "Skype" as a verb is soon to be a thing of the past.
Show threadDavid Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)Mar 1, 2025

@rasterweb

online search" instead of "Google Search

Or do refer to it as Googling, but explicitly when you use a different search engine. Say things like ‘Google it on DuckDuckGo’. When a trademark becomes a generic term, it stops being a trademark. If everyone says ‘Google it on Bing’, Google becomes an unenforceable trademark.

Show threadGuillaume RossoliniMar 1, 2025
@david_chisnall @rasterweb wasn’t this the main rationale for their Alphabet rebranding: Google has already become a verb?
Show threadPete Prodoehl 🍕Mar 1, 2025
@GuillaumeRossolini @david_chisnall I thought that was just so Alphabet could do all the evil. 😅
Show threadwitchescauldronMar 1, 2025
@rasterweb I would use #openweb or #4opens in the place of online as this has the value judgments that we need to step away from the mess we made with our use of the #dotcons
Show threadMark BurtonMar 1, 2025
@rasterweb
I always say "websearch" & never verbified G.
Show threadBaron VonskinnbackMar 1, 2025
@rasterweb oh I understand what you mean, say Nazi welfare Queen, instead of Elon Musk, felonious fetid fusty flaccid fascist , instead of Donald Trump and couch enthusiast instead of JD Vance...
Show threadRuud SteltenpoolMar 1, 2025
@rasterweb there are many people with a brand in their job title, where this brand is not the company paying their salary. Part of vendor lock-in, maybe a little, maybe a whole lot.
Show threadMichael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂMar 1, 2025

@rasterweb @GeofCox I've been doing this for ages because it is so much easier to say ‘I saw a post on social media’, rather than saying on Mastodon, then having to explain what Mastodon is.

Likewise I've been using other search engines for a long time now.

Show threadJeroen BosmanMar 1, 2025
@rasterweb indeed, do not say send me your powerpoint, but ask for people's slidedeck, even when you know it might have a ppt extension.
Show threadWorkshopshedMar 1, 2025
@rasterweb robotic vacuum cleaner
voice assistant
Show threadbjb  Mar 1, 2025
@Workshopshed @rasterweb
On a thread calling for non-corporate names:
"Screen share" or "video call" instead of "webex" or .... whatever.
Show threadKlaus FrankMar 1, 2025
@rasterweb actually NO, keep saying YouTube video, keep saying "to google", keep saying all of these.
WHY?
Simple all of these companies will loose their trademark once these words become generic words. That's one of the words things that can happen for these companies as all of their competition then also can just use these terms and ultimately nobody will even remember that there was a company with that name at some point in time.
Show threadI AM BANKSY ☕ / 🗑‍🔥Mar 1, 2025
@rasterweb let's bring back the dead ones. "Posting an update on MySpace" or "Asking Jeeves" or "Recording a Vine"
Show threadPete Prodoehl 🍕Mar 1, 2025
@xinit I'll Pownce on that!
Show threadFritsPostMar 1, 2025
@rasterweb Exactly. (Even though Spotify is not US based, avoiding the use of company names is essential). But it’s a slow process.
Show threadDiabolic PreacherMar 1, 2025
@rasterweb doing since xerox, band-aid, etc.
Show threadJohn SchmidtMar 2, 2025
@rasterweb
I often use the term "web search". Now I will start using the other terms as well.
Show threadhelgenugMar 2, 2025

@rasterweb

[???] instead of "podcast"