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I noticed these accounts are following a lot of ppl on Spotify including me nd it doesn’t seem like I’m the only one from looking on social media. Does anyone have an answer to this? Bots maybe, ppl spam following?

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[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not a lot. Yes you can see what they are playing and they use it to make recommendations for you.

I think the primary motivator for Spotify is just data scraping. Everybody wants to know your circle of friends in order to advertise better towards you.

[–] mifan@feddit.dk 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t know if it’s still a feature but I used to get phone notifications every time a friend put a song on.

I don’t recommend this.

[–] Gadg8eer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago

But I remember we did it. "Okay, Brian, the record's five. The record's five... Okay ready? Go!"