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Ek said Spotify employees were doing too much "work around the work" as he laid off 17% of the group's workforce in December.

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[–] kautau@lemmy.world 74 points 7 months ago (12 children)

Once Spotify changed their entire UI to focus on engagement instead of a good UX, I switched to another service. I wish the best for those employees that were laid off, and the worst for a CEO driven by profit above all else

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 31 points 7 months ago (11 children)

May I ask what service you switched to? I'm tired of my music app being cluttered with podcasts and audio books. I use other services for this things and don't need them in Spotify.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago (7 children)

I switched to tidal. Recently had a huge price drop to compete with Spotify and Apple Music. It’s not perfect, but it has lossless audio, and works well for my needs

[–] VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I started using Tidal when I learned they where the ones who pay the artists the most. I don't know if it's still true today tho.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah that was part of my motivation as well. I’m unsure how that will change now with their significant price drop, I was happy paying the previous prices, as it was like the cost of buying 3 $10 CDs a month, and I listened to considerably more music than that

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