In 2025, Spotify launched direct messages on its platform, a rather unorthodox feature for a music streaming service that turned out to be quite popular. Spotify revealed that since launch, 40 million users shared over 340 million messages. Today, Spotify is giving its platform more social features, namely the ability to see what your friends are listening to and send a request to jam.

    • lemmysmash@beehaw.org
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      7 days ago

      No, that might hurt someone’s feelings, so if you do that you’ll be banned from the platform, your data will perish and your whole online personality will be canceled eventually. Welcome to the modern internet :)

  • BroBot9000@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    MP3s are better in every way. This shit is fucking creepy and absolutely not needed to play music.

    Just another way for them to spy on you and harvest more data while paying artist like shit and drowning the platform in Ai slop

  • artyom@piefed.social
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    7 days ago

    This has been a feature for as long as I can remember. There’s even a plugin for Discord.