  Popular music streaming platforms offer users a diverse network of content
exploration through a triad of affordances: organic, algorithmic and editorial
access modes. Whilst offering great potential for discovery, such platform
developments also pose the modern user with daily adoption decisions on two
fronts: platform affordance adoption and the adoption of recommendations
therein. Following a carefully constrained set of Deezer users over a 2-year
observation period, our work explores factors driving user behaviour in the
broad sense, by differentiating users on the basis of their temporal daily
usage, adoption of the main platform affordances, and the ways in which they
react to them, especially in terms of recommendation adoption. Diverging from a
perspective common in studies on the effects of recommendation, we assume and
confirm that users exhibit very diverse behaviours in using and adopting the
platform affordances. The resulting complex and quite heterogeneous picture
demonstrates that there is no blanket answer for adoption practices of both
recommendation features and recommendations.
