HobiBallOfSunshine | hurt/comfort enthusiast

Call me an idiot, but I just sent $25 directly to Elon Musk, the richest man in the world using @XMoney for no other reason than I just can. lol

(long tweet warning) I mean the following sincerely. One of the significant advantages to owning your own business is that you can run that business how you wish. If the new owners of @lastfm do not want ARMY to use their service, that is their perogative. If the new owners are happy to lose the revenue from Pro subscriptions and to lose ad revenue due to the lower amount they will be able to charge for ads due to lower engagement numbers, that is their decision and their right. I wish them well and I mean that sincerely. Now. Here is why I say the new owners of Last do not want ARMY to use their service. Yesterday, I noticed that my streams weren’t syncing with Last. I assumed it was some kind of tech issue on my end. Checking twitter showed that others were having the same issue. Then someone (I forget who or I would credit) found the tweet and reply below. That made it clear it was not random. I decided to test to see what was happening since I am not a bot and my coding days are long past and I could not write a script if I had to do so. I pulled up the Last website and watched in real time as my scrobbles were deleted. It would show a BTS track that I was sitting there playing as being scrobbled. As soon as the next track started, the prior scrobble was deleted. Last was treating me, an actual human being who was actually listening to the music, as a bot. I then checked to see who owns Last because there is at least arguably shareholder action for purposefully alienating a major portion of user base to say nothing of making a change that resulted in data being inaccurate. It turns out that Last was sold on May 27, 2026. It further turns out that Last was sold to a group of Last staffers. See below. I have not been able to see purchase price or any information as to how it was financed, though sales price may be in Paramount/Skydance’s next set of quarterlies. For some further context, CBS bought Last in 2004 for $280 million USD and it was a cash purchase. Which brings us back to where I started. If the new owners want to cut off their nose to spite their face, that is 100% their right to do so. I wish them well. I also will not use a service that does not want me there. That is my right. I will be interested to see how this turns out. /fin