If you want that long tail, bandcamp and soundcloud are better sources. The barrier to entry is low with those, and there’s a plethora of small, niche artists just doing their own thing.

For a representative snapshot of music though, it’s pretty amazing. It shows what a massive percentage of the planet listens to, preserved hopefully across many seeds, and historians will love shit like this in the future.

the fact that he disappeared off the face of the planet after this only reinforces my feeling about deplatforming nazis

yandex is pretty solid for finding media

I went with dbzer0 for two main reasons - pirates have a long history of maintaining server infrastructure, and joining a smaller instance fights centralization.