Show HN: Rocksky – Music scrobbling and discovery on the AT Protocol
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Yes, I've become paranoid in my old age.
I credit last.fm with showing me a lot of the music I love, it’s the perfect recommendation model and still the best social music platform so I’m definitely rooting for you to improve on it!
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Apparently, the OP refers to <https://atproto.com/> per the FAQ at <https://docs.rocksky.app/faq-918661m0#what-is-the-at-protoco...>
> What is Rocksky?
> Rocksky is a decentralized, open-source music tracking and discovery platform built on the AT Protocol. It works like Last.fm but publishes your listening history directly to your Bluesky account.
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Can we start a trend where we tell people what the thing is and what it does without making them dig around to find it?
I don't use Bluesky and don't plan to start. Rocksky really isn't for me.
While it's not like it was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard,' this whole experience could have been concluded a lot faster if the project page simply described the function of the thing in a forthright fashion.
And that's kind of my point: The description of what the thing does is so brief that neither of us can figure it out.
Afterward, there's a ton of instruction on how to install it. Including a link to use it on...someone else's sandbox, I guess? Which sure is neat and that may be a platform that I want to play with for my own purposes, but... the point isn't a sandbox, is it?
Or is that the point? Who could tell?
Anyway, I'm not installing new-to-me software that is so detrimentally-vague about what it is actually meant to do as this is.
(I mean: I already know about last.fm -- I've known about last.fm for decades now and even used to give them a few dollars every month. I still don't know what this thing is supposed to be, or why it exists, or what real advantages it might have. I strongly suspect that it could all be summarized very well in one or two decently-written paragraphs, and it seems very lazy to not simply write them.)
However, what I don't understand is why there isn't just a single Dockerfile that does it all. `docker build` is step 4 or something.
With the former, I build the app with my own API_KEY and SHARED_SECRET, then the actual user has to add their username/password, which gets stored in the Apple keychain.
With the latter, I don't need a API KEY built into the app, and they just login with a username and a token.
Would I be right that I could just duplicate the listenbrainz code with that new endpoint and it would work the same way?
So it's unreliable by design? There's no way I'd switch from Last.fm or ListenBrainz to something that will /dev/null my scrobbles at its discretion.
I ditched all music services and now navidrome+narjo combo, works perfectly well, flac, and with reverse proxy exposing the server there’s no need to vpn or anything, it’s a drop in replacement, and free.