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I haven’t been using social media for 10+ years besides some on/off shitposting on hacker news. I’d love to find something for music management that’s not sucky and uber corpo like Spotify. I use Bandcamp for buying from niche artists and sound cloud for finding new labels, but sound cloud is too Spotifyish now. Deezer used to be nice before they started region restrictions.
I'm currently using Qobuz. The interface is a bit clunky and the catalog is smaller, but there are no podcasts, audiobooks, or social features.
My favorite ever streaming service was Mog. It was bought by Beats and ruined.
For those in the US that can't use Quobuz (like myself), Tidal has social features, but you can turn them off.
I moved to Tidal from YT Music because of its awful bloat and love it. It's simple and I've not found it to be lacking in anything. Some listings may be wrong sometimes, but they're super responsive to feedback for fixing it.
Qobuz is available in the US (Qobuz Availability).
I tried Tidal for a while back when they only had the high-fi tier. It was nice but not worth the $20 a month IMO. It looks like they have cheaper tiers now.
Another plus is both services sound much better than Spotify.
Oh, I had literally checked it 3 weeks ago and it wasn't. Cool!