Fuck AI

That's quite common in the United States as well; I just typed the call letters of my local rock station into my web browser, it ran a duckduckgo search, top result was the station's website, clicked that, the page loaded with LISTEN NOW in bright red 78 point impact font at the top. Clicked that and now I know Five Finger Death Punch is considered "Classic Rock" these days.

But remember, we're on Lemmy. This platform has a selection bias for Linux users, soldering iron owners, self hosters. Those of us willing to put up with the slightest inconvenience. We're not like most people.

For most normies, that's at least three leaps too far. That required thinking. If you're operating at the level of "make it not silent in here" then Spotify is the shortest path to ground, it's the least number of screen pokes to get noise to come out. Going to the website of a rock station means launching a browser, running a search, considering the list of links, and then paying some amount of attention to the pages that load. That's more than you can expect from the average unwashed mass whose check engine light burned out 30,000 miles ago.