Spotify's API is going Pay for Play, starting today. You must have a premium subscription to use it.
Funkwhale, Bandwagon get ready.
https://developer.spotify.com/blog/2026-02-06-update-on-developer-access-and-platform-security
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Every one of these pushes people to the open web. It's always good news, but we need to be ready.
What do YOU think the Fediverse needs to do to welcome people turned off by the world's most recent #Enshitification story?
@benpate @funkwhale Outreach to the developers and projects that relied on the API. Github search of projects that used it, sorted by stars.
Provide learning pathways to documentation and examples of similar functionality available in federated platforms.
https://github.com/search?q=spotify+web+api&type=repositories&s=stars&o=desc
This is an amazing idea. Thank you.