Emotional commitment through familiarity. For me music is a great tool for getting into the flow and the only music that does that and not overload me is atmospheric ambient music. Any singing automatically grab my attention and getting me out of the flow, surprisingly chanting does not. On the other hand Classical/Jazz music is highly stimulating so it goes well along physically demanding activities.

so keeping tabs on posts by quickly downvoting/upvoting (in)convenient subjects, as well as slightly steering them away from what’s really being discussed, might be a pretty handy tactic for manipulating course of conversation, and also making them look like not sufficiently valuable or important to be worth one’s time?

At the begging I was using web player, then I switched to VLC, and know I’m using soma’s app, it’s really good. It even has a sleep timer. You can get in touch with the dev on mastodon @dgmltn (if you have any suggestions, questions etc).

Here’s one screenshot.