Misc                    Bye Reddit, Bye Spotify         24 November 2025


   I've deleted my u/coignard account on Reddit and stopped using
   Spotify.  Regarding Reddit: I found myself today reading comments
   under a post discussing a rather contentious topic, and suddenly
   thought: "what am I doing here?"  Indeed: what am I doing there?  It
   seems to me that Reddit has long since become just another internet
   cesspit.  In the Russian-speaking segment, an analogous cesspit
   exists under the Pikabu brand, but that doesn't change the essence of
   things.  On Reddit, I mostly posted memes in German, which I'd either
   found elsewhere or created myself.  And my own projects, for
   instance, plugins for Obsidian.  But I realised I didn't want to
   invest in Reddit and didn't want to be part of it.  So I'm no longer
   there and never will be again.  Actually, this is quite a consistent
   decision, given that in the past I stopped using Facebook, Instagram,
   and other social networks: the time had come to bid farewell to
   Reddit as well.

   With Spotify, it's a slightly different story.  I didn't begrudge the
   money for a subscription, because they provide an excellent service,
   but at some point I caught myself realising that I was discovering
   new music exclusively through Spotify's algorithms.  Why that's not
   cool: because previously it was an entire process, a kind of journey.
   It happened consciously and was in itself rather fascinating and
   brought pleasure.  So I abandoned this service in favour of storing
   music locally.  And now I can also support independent musicians who
   sell their albums on Bandcamp.  For instance, Half Moon Run, or The
   Mysterious Town of Oak Hill, a band from Saint Petersburg.  I've
   known them for ages, but how wonderful it was to discover them anew,
   thanks to this now conscious process!  Found their new album from
   2018.  That's precisely what I'd been missing.





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