Show HN: Rocksky – Music scrobbling and discovery on the AT Protocol

A new site called Rocksky just strutted onto Hacker News with a simple promise: track what you listen to, discover new music, and do it on a more open social network instead of being trapped inside one giant app. On paper, it’s a feature buffet — history, live listening stories, charts, likes, shoutboxes, Spotify support, and even plans for sharing your own library later. But the real soundtrack here is the comments, and they’re singing one loud theme: people are weirdly emotional about music tracking.

The warmest reaction came from users who still treat Last.fm like a beloved ex they never truly got over. One commenter practically declared it the gold standard of music discovery, saying it helped them find loads of favorite artists and cheering Rocksky on to do it even better. That nostalgia was the dominant vibe: less “another app” and more “finally, someone remembers the internet used to be fun.” Another person dropped in with pure fan energy — “Super awesome!” — while someone else celebrated seeing an “Atmosphere app” on HN at all, which is niche-geek praise with a victory-lap tone.

But there was also a tiny whiff of platform drama. One commenter casually flexed that they had already ditched mainstream music services entirely for a homebrew setup with their own files, basically delivering a DIY superiority monologue in the middle of the lovefest. And then came the most gloriously practical request of all: can it just play the song with a YouTube video on-site? In other words, while the builders are dreaming of a decentralized music future, the crowd is already yelling, cool, but make it easier, make it social, and make it play my stuff now.