Always preferred forums, always will.
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Forums are invaluable, I just wish that that didn’t all have to look like modern websites. Call me crazy but I prefer the old message board style.
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I’m finding Instagram more and more irritating. Every fourth or fifth post on my feed is an advert now.
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Being hit up to join Instagram’s new social platform ‘Threads’ just seems a copy of twitter….which I don’t use.
I don’t mind Insta as i’ll use it for music/creative stuff. Barely on Facebook, deleted Twitter. Not on TikToK. Hehe not really helping myself with ‘playing the game’
Another algorithm lead vice/platform to resist?
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I’ve now also reached the point where I’ve had to turn off Bandcamp notifications/emails, as it was just becoming overwhelming every Friday.
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This. It’s usually starting from Thursday morning now and goes mental all day Friday. Too much.
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Is there a way to do that without having to “unfollow” people? Every time I buy something, it follows the artist by default, so it’s a bit like whac-a-mole.
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as if we didn’t need yet another overwhelming info dump- especially because I like all of these artists and realise they’re just doing their mail out grind to get some payout.
bandcamp Friday for me usually means I just buy a bunch of stuff in my wants list that gets stacked up over the month, it kinda works. using a completely different email address for bandcamp fan acc/bogus sign ups also helps.
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I’ve joined Threads because I used to like Twitter to contribute and share non music related chat but I dont have much of an audience there, so want to see if my in-built Insta/Thread circle of followers will generate anything interesting. If its just more meme sharing and hot take BS I think I’ll bin in
Anyone else trying out Theads?
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I don’t think Andi Hanley has any on-line presence at all.
If anyone does have a contact for him I’d be interested as I’d like to book him for party.
He’s just played NAM in Manchester last week. Do you know Paul Hughes?
No I don’t. Any help here much appreciated Chris. Cheers.
careful if you decide to delete…
threads is quite terrible at the moment, for me
it is nice that there are no ads but you only get this algorithmic feed filled with accounts i don’t want to see
for all of its faults, on twitter i am able to get a feed in chronological order just of the accounts i follow without any ads (when using the website with ad blocking on)
instagram is at least half ads and recommended content for me and while i post occasionally, i try to spend as little time consuming content on it as possible and i expect that’s the same for everyone else, making it purely a promotional tool
I think privacy is the only way to get people to share anything authentic but when you have a private community, it becomes impossible to other people to find out about it so in many ways it is “anti-social”
this forum is an incredible success story but i think it would be difficult for other people to replicate it. i imagine testpressing having a pre-established following and the timing around covid were probably big factors in getting enough users initially to reach a critical mass where there’s enough new content for people to want to keep coming back
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I find Reddit to be a genuinely useful source for information. Since they’ve restricted access to the API and affectively banned 3rd party apps, I’ve been using the offical Reddit app on mobile and it’s the biggest piece of shit imaginable and basically unusable (loads of ads and ‘promoted content’).
Used to use ‘Reddit is Fun’ which was far easier to navigate. I guess the owners got greedy, such a shame.
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i never “got” reddit. i know people who found it invaluable as far as fast, easy answers to very specific interests and problems, but i thought the whole upvoting/downvoting thing was just messy - and the nested reply system made things nearly impossible to read. i probably needed reddit lessons, but it seems like that ship has sailed.
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You’re not wrong, the website breeds a hive mind mentally. It’s hard to tell who actually wrote a top comment, especially on the front page stuff. Maybe a bot, maybe a human.
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I only do smoke signals.
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Social media in general, imo. I was saying to my wife at dinner last night that I have grown to despise pretty much all of it. AI may well be the end of civilisation, but the advent, and subsequent abuse, of social media was arguably the beginning of the end of civilised society.
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