Spotify's attempt to "disconnect" you from your own/your preferred music artists is a symptom of something I've found across many other algorithm-driven online spaces: it isn't who/what they show you that's necessarily problematic; it's who/what they make disappear. Sometimes it's you; sometimes it's someone or something they clearly hav…
Spotify's attempt to "disconnect" you from your own/your preferred music artists is a symptom of something I've found across many other algorithm-driven online spaces: it isn't who/what they show you that's necessarily problematic; it's who/what they make disappear. Sometimes it's you; sometimes it's someone or something they clearly have evidence that you enjoy.
But they don't care.
They want you in -this- other box, over there; the one that benefits them.
Spotify's attempt to "disconnect" you from your own/your preferred music artists is a symptom of something I've found across many other algorithm-driven online spaces: it isn't who/what they show you that's necessarily problematic; it's who/what they make disappear. Sometimes it's you; sometimes it's someone or something they clearly have evidence that you enjoy.
But they don't care.
They want you in -this- other box, over there; the one that benefits them.
It's worse than ever now.