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Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat

484 points · 257 comments · simonpure

bullfightonmars · 1790613267 · focus · HN ↗
I was surprised last week to find that Spotify has turned in to full on social media/youtube now.
I left Spotify off of screentime limits for my son so that he could listen to music or books at bedtime, and found him watching "podcasts" which have full youtube style pages with videos and comments.
1. jahnu · 1790621958 · focus · HN ↗
  Zawinski's Law* except now it’s a social media messaging app.
  “Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail.”
  1. morkalork · 1790623262 · focus · HN ↗
    What's the meme about Google products and chat features?
    jwstillwater · 1790656717 · focus · HN ↗
    He’s never coming over Dario!
    Callback to a post yesterday [1] regarding Google attempting to siphon a little heart-to-heart from a user’s search query. I actually think this is a fitting next-iteration of Doctorow’s term- even though the two cases here are entirely parallel, it does capture the general feeling of being chased all over the web and across multiple apps in attempt to just be a human capable of making decisions!
    <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870367">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870367

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