Spotify is no longer just a streaming app, it's a social network

And the enshittification of Spotify rolls on.

🙄 Of course it fucking is. Gotta milk and harvest as much money and data from people as possible.

I honestly don't understand how Spotify is so popular. I've had multiple attempts over the years of subscribing for a month or two at a time and it's always been terrible. Its like Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon or something - I always end up listening to the same couple of dozen "popular" songs no matter where I started.

I kick off with some random bluegrass hillbilly banjo shit and within half an hour of random song selection it's on Taylor Swift or Ed Sheeran again.

And if you opt for [artist name] Radio, it's literally the exact same playlist every time. That's not what radio is!

At least with YouTube Music you can change between Related / Deep Cuts / Explore etc and force it to regenerate your queue with more variation. And [artist name] Radio actually chooses different random songs each time.

B-but I don't want a social network in my streaming app

I remember when Spotify used to show me what my friends were listening to in real time, I thought that was a neat feature, I could hop into whatever had my friend's attention. Then one day it broke and they've never fixed it.

Not sure what my point is, I guess if they want to make a social network, fixing social features like that would be a better first step?