Tom Scott
@psychedeli.ca
building https://tracklist.diy, the music streaming platform where the power is in your hands. launching early 2026. also a composer and songwriter.
beat up a delivery robot so philly can be involved
December 28, 2025 at 2:24 AM
beat up a delivery robot so philly can be involved
haha i am building one in particular that’s atproto-native…but i also make music (both creative and commercial) and AI tools have helped a lot with those. i don’t use the tools to create stuff, just to enhance the stuff i’ve created. similar in scope to autotune or auto harmonizers imho.
December 27, 2025 at 11:05 PM
haha i am building one in particular that’s atproto-native…but i also make music (both creative and commercial) and AI tools have helped a lot with those. i don’t use the tools to create stuff, just to enhance the stuff i’ve created. similar in scope to autotune or auto harmonizers imho.
do you know of one that works better for stem splitting? this is the best one i’ve used, but always down to try something new if it works well. AI not required.
December 27, 2025 at 11:03 PM
do you know of one that works better for stem splitting? this is the best one i’ve used, but always down to try something new if it works well. AI not required.
at that point you're kind-of reinventing a distributed version control or blockchain system, right? xD
might be frustrating to read bad takes, but i still feel like if most users don't need to understand how this stuff works to use it, that's a net positive and should result in more traction...
might be frustrating to read bad takes, but i still feel like if most users don't need to understand how this stuff works to use it, that's a net positive and should result in more traction...
December 26, 2025 at 9:02 AM
at that point you're kind-of reinventing a distributed version control or blockchain system, right? xD
might be frustrating to read bad takes, but i still feel like if most users don't need to understand how this stuff works to use it, that's a net positive and should result in more traction...
might be frustrating to read bad takes, but i still feel like if most users don't need to understand how this stuff works to use it, that's a net positive and should result in more traction...
i hope someday humanity grows the ability to discern against useful AI (like the stem splitter on musicfy.lol) and useless AI...
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December 26, 2025 at 8:54 AM
i hope someday humanity grows the ability to discern against useful AI (like the stem splitter on musicfy.lol) and useless AI...
i use the regular bsky appview and you are not blocked, you have a "rude" label on your posts from somewhere. blacksky's appview might just fully block this label but your posts are readable in certain circumstances.
think you can find out who labeled you and contact them to see why?
think you can find out who labeled you and contact them to see why?
December 26, 2025 at 8:50 AM
i use the regular bsky appview and you are not blocked, you have a "rude" label on your posts from somewhere. blacksky's appview might just fully block this label but your posts are readable in certain circumstances.
think you can find out who labeled you and contact them to see why?
think you can find out who labeled you and contact them to see why?
"close" is a relative term...it's much closer than it was in August 2025. there are several teams (myself included) striving to make this a reality, even if we have to hack the protocol to make it work. tracklist.diy _needs_ private data to succeed and we're already betting on atproto...
tracklist:// — the world is listening
music without limits
tracklist.diy
December 26, 2025 at 8:47 AM
"close" is a relative term...it's much closer than it was in August 2025. there are several teams (myself included) striving to make this a reality, even if we have to hack the protocol to make it work. tracklist.diy _needs_ private data to succeed and we're already betting on atproto...
...provide this as well, then bsky could aggregate all of the trending results to produce the top 5 instead of relying on their own (seemingly bespoke and not-on-proto?) feed generator to create those trending pages. give the community the power and i'm confident they'll make a better news site!
December 26, 2025 at 8:45 AM
...provide this as well, then bsky could aggregate all of the trending results to produce the top 5 instead of relying on their own (seemingly bespoke and not-on-proto?) feed generator to create those trending pages. give the community the power and i'm confident they'll make a better news site!
tbh i thought the whole point of feeds & generators was so that others could create good news feeds that are pleasant to read and inform you of what's going on...the main diff between bsky feeds and generators is the "trending" aggregates that they have at the top. if feed generators could...
December 26, 2025 at 8:45 AM
tbh i thought the whole point of feeds & generators was so that others could create good news feeds that are pleasant to read and inform you of what's going on...the main diff between bsky feeds and generators is the "trending" aggregates that they have at the top. if feed generators could...
finally i can just click a button to chat using my troll alt!
December 26, 2025 at 8:41 AM
finally i can just click a button to chat using my troll alt!
reminds me of the relationship between cvs/subversion and git. since svn was an evolution of cvs, it retained many of the problems that people just associated with version control at the time. git was a rethinking of version control, and we now treat the whole concept differently as a result.
December 26, 2025 at 8:40 AM
reminds me of the relationship between cvs/subversion and git. since svn was an evolution of cvs, it retained many of the problems that people just associated with version control at the time. git was a rethinking of version control, and we now treat the whole concept differently as a result.
diaspora's concept of decentralized social networking evolved into activitypub and mastodon. atproto is a different concept entirely, and imho has stronger roots in the blockchain and cryptocurrency tech than it does with "traditional" federated social networks.
December 26, 2025 at 8:40 AM
diaspora's concept of decentralized social networking evolved into activitypub and mastodon. atproto is a different concept entirely, and imho has stronger roots in the blockchain and cryptocurrency tech than it does with "traditional" federated social networks.
...facing in the current climate of the music industry. the "spotify problem" is that the industry's market cap is bigger than ever, but individual artist earnings are at an all-time low. we would like to solve that problem in a way that benefits both the creator and the consumer.
December 26, 2025 at 8:29 AM
...facing in the current climate of the music industry. the "spotify problem" is that the industry's market cap is bigger than ever, but individual artist earnings are at an all-time low. we would like to solve that problem in a way that benefits both the creator and the consumer.
this is true. i guess my issue with the spotify data dump is that it doesn't really help any of the artists who have distributed their music to spotify and all the other streaming services. it's a big middle-finger to spotify, but at the end of the day it doesn't change the problem musicians are...
December 26, 2025 at 8:29 AM
this is true. i guess my issue with the spotify data dump is that it doesn't really help any of the artists who have distributed their music to spotify and all the other streaming services. it's a big middle-finger to spotify, but at the end of the day it doesn't change the problem musicians are...
i don't think you'll ever get free money if you download tracklist, but i can say that depending on the artist's preferences, you could get free music! :)
December 26, 2025 at 8:27 AM
i don't think you'll ever get free money if you download tracklist, but i can say that depending on the artist's preferences, you could get free music! :)
nice, that's a pretty interesting idea...perhaps you could make it headless and then the app view is just a JSON API that's used to feed your site's data. honestly if i had to do this i'd probably start with slices.network and see how far i get with a slice appview :)
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December 26, 2025 at 8:25 AM
nice, that's a pretty interesting idea...perhaps you could make it headless and then the app view is just a JSON API that's used to feed your site's data. honestly if i had to do this i'd probably start with slices.network and see how far i get with a slice appview :)
eventually we'll probably extend this so one can sign in with e.g. Google or Apple, but they'd still need to authorize initially with their PDS (and possibly re-auth with it) because that's where we store their data. the "sign in with whatever" is just a convenience.
December 26, 2025 at 8:22 AM
eventually we'll probably extend this so one can sign in with e.g. Google or Apple, but they'd still need to authorize initially with their PDS (and possibly re-auth with it) because that's where we store their data. the "sign in with whatever" is just a convenience.
the way tracklist.diy solved this problem was to have people log in with their PDS and then connect their other identity off-protocol. we're associating accounts with Stripe Connect, not Steam, but it's a similar idea. i believe they both use OAuth at the end of the day..
December 26, 2025 at 8:21 AM
the way tracklist.diy solved this problem was to have people log in with their PDS and then connect their other identity off-protocol. we're associating accounts with Stripe Connect, not Steam, but it's a similar idea. i believe they both use OAuth at the end of the day..
are you suggesting something where the records themselves hold the structured metadata, or just the compiled HTML results? because wisp.place does in fact allow web publishing sourced from your PDS. you can then use any static site generator or CMS as long as it can build an HTML site..
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December 26, 2025 at 8:16 AM
are you suggesting something where the records themselves hold the structured metadata, or just the compiled HTML results? because wisp.place does in fact allow web publishing sourced from your PDS. you can then use any static site generator or CMS as long as it can build an HTML site..