Introducing Messages, A New Way To Share What You Love on Spotify with Friends and Family — Spotify
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Recommendations have always been at the heart of the Spotify experience. Friends and family share their favorite music, podcasts, audiobooks, and more from Spotify millions of times each month. That’s because word of mouth is one of the most powerful ways for people to discover their next favorite track.  Spotify users have told us they...

I’ve done it. I’ve finally reached my “old man yells at cloud” moment. Why, why, WHY is Spotify adding features straight out of the social media playbook?

Anybody have recommendations for alternatives?

In my head there’s:

YouTube music (google, gross)

Apple music (no way they’re not on a similar trajectory)

Bandcamp (limited, but at least bands see some money from it)

SoundCloud (weird reputation, though haven’t come back around to it in a good 10 years)

Tidal maybe? Would love to hear some recommendations.

Edit: I neglected to mention why I don’t like the messaging feature. I’ve never used it, yet with a few of my friends there are already dozens of song exchanges in the thread. It’s clear that spotify has been using user-specific links for a while now to track who sends what to who. That’s a pretty clear anti-feature for me, and is enough to make me jump ship.

    • Jarix@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      24 days ago

      I looked at it but at the time, Spotify wasn’t as shit as it is today as a company. I just don’t want to give Google my money anymore either.

      • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        23 days ago

        Sadly it’s my last remaining payment to Google, hard to beat yt music and yt premium in one package when I use both services so heavily.

        • Jarix@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          23 days ago

          I get it. We all just need a better alternative. I’m not holding my breath though

    • some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      23 days ago

      It’s been a few years since, but the wholesale merging of music as a category with the entirety of YouTube really gets in my craw. Like, thanks, but I don’t need or want “8 hours of AI-generated lo-fi chill beats for work and studying by xXx-alphachad69420-xXx” showing up when I’m looking for legitimate art to listen to.