Alternative Nation: The Fediverse's Alternative and Indie Music Community

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Alternative Nation : The Fediverse's largest alternative and indie music community! All things alternative music, from 80s college rock to today's indie and all the amazing alternative music in between. Welcome home, music nerds!

Some of y'all may remember MTV's Alternative Nation or 120 Minutes, awesome programs & incredible ways to discover #music back in the 80s & 90s...

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The Golden Rule: Music taste is subjective so don't be a gatekeeping asshole. There's no "bad music", only music you like or don't like.

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Hocus Pocus, by the Vandals (yewtu.be)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/alternativenation

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Sorry, I'm in a mood, as my kids say

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I grew up in So Cal and the Vandals were part of my mis-spent youth, lol.

So, you know how youtube.com is part of the Goog empire? They track everything you watch, sell that data to advertisers, get ticked at you when you run an ad blocker, etc...?

Well, Invidious is a chunk of software anyone can install which acts like a new front-end for youtube.com. They block Goog from know who's really watching the video, get it without ads, and so on. You just watch the video, free and clear of that BS. It's slightly slower because of the process going on under the hood but it's a lot better experience.

yewtu.be is someone's installation of Invidious. It's probably the largest in terms of traffic, but there are lots of other Invidious servers online now.

In any case, just sit back and enjoy. When you see a yewtu.be link, just think "That's just like youtube.com except without the BS"