I’m interested in selfhosting, if possible, an equivelant to last.fm – it would analyze the history of what I listen to, and provide me with recommendations, and listening history reports.

Aside, last.fm as a federated service would be quite interesting. It would be neat to add a federated social media aspect to it.

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    10 months ago

    How would these recommendations be generated. Will you host for loads of people or just sit there with your single datapoint?

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      10 months ago

      That’s a fair point that I had not considered – it’s a shortcoming in the premise of my inquiry. I wonder if it’s possible, if at all, to create any recommendation service that doesn’t compromise on user privacy. It may not be, as it would require a user’s history, which, given enough entries, can be used to identify them.

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        10 months ago

        Its possible with anonymous data. But you do need other user’s data. So it would need to somehow be not just self-hostee but also federated. With lots of dsts from other servers

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          10 months ago

          The issue, I think, is that having access to a user’s entire listening history could very well be used to identify that user – one’s full listening history is likely to be rather unique.