Spotify fumbled social so bad. Music should be social. Music has been social since ancient times, but now thanks to Spotify we’re all atomized. Spotify hates humanity. Spotify hates you. We should be able to click on a song to view friends who already know the song, as well as friends who might like the song so that I can send it to them. Why even add friends on Spotify if we can’t do anything with them?
DMs (Direct messages) should be brought back so that Spotify can have insight into how songs are being sent around, instead of that being invisible to Spotify. I’d gladly give Spotify this data if I thought they’d use it to benefit me. Unfortunately they’re idiots and can’t even figure out how to trick me into giving them my data willingly. What do you think they do at their office all day. Spotify employees probably use Apple Music.
You should be able to make DM group chats too. Perhaps Spotify given their listening data could suggest group chat members … when you go to send a song to people, you could send it separately or you could create a new group with all of them. Similar to how Snapchat allows you to send a Snap to multiple people individually or create a new group with everyone.
According to their community forums (which are brimming with users ready to mutiny!) Spotify shut down the messaging feature because nobody used it. Well, nobody used it because it wasn’t useful to them. It provided no more value than sending via text. That’s Spotify’s own fault. People would use things if it provided them with value. People won’t use things if it doesn’t provide them value. It’s very simple.
How can we open up the floodgates of competition upon Spotify since it’s clear that those goofballs will never change their ways? Perhaps TikTok Music could displace them?
“Daily mixes” are numbered arbitrarily. (e.g. “Daily Mix 1”) Why can’t Spotify come up with Genre names. “Oh yeah Daily Mix 3 is great” is not a communicable thought. You can’t say that to anyone. “Daily Deep House Mix” is communicable. It can be used in a sentence. Spotify’s an enemy of humanity insofar as it renders Good Things non-communicable. Good Things should be verbally communicable.
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