february

With modern technology, there's in some ways more options than ever before

oo this is so clever, I love it!

Being able to choose what music you want to listen to would make your music streaming service unsustainable? Not being able to do this somehow increases revenue for artists??

We should be thankful that it's not even more dogshit??? Holy fuck.

Oh wait, it is even more dogshit! Not only does Spotify decide what music you might want to listen to, but you also have to listen to constant ads for the "privilege".

And oh? What's this? The web app on desktop allows me to play any song I want at any time, and it's artificially restricted on mobile? What a fucking surprise.

ah man, I remember when Spotify fucked the free version of their mobile app in like 2014. I guess I'm glad they did, in a way - if it had stayed convenient Enough, I might have never really gotten serious about collecting music.

Dont tell nobody, but you can still select specific songs in certain spotify clients for linux

because, well.

from the Zettelkasten website:

Luhmann’s Zettelkasten is a collection of notes on paper slips with a special twist: It is a hypertext that he could navigate the drawer cabinet containing all the paper slips with a reasonable amount of time and energy. “Reasonable” means that it was reasonable for Luhmann, who, obsessed with his theory of society, was a workaholic and an enthusiastic bureaucrat. A hypertext needs to be surfable. On Wikipedia, you just need to click a link to get to the next article within Wikipedia’s hypertext. It requires more effort to follow a link if the hypertext is paper-based. The other problem is that you need a starting point for your ride. So Luhmann created his Zettelkasten to make his note collection surfable. He needed entry points and a mechanism to surf from one note to another in a productive way.

but that's beside the point. The description here is broadly applicable.

surfing leads to connecting things you wouldn't otherwise connect, the accidental/automatic discovery of context before content. lurking and community develop as people strolling past generates the web equivalent of "foot traffic".

Which is precisely what the corps have been tearing off limb by limb. Not just online, but also in the last 40 years of sub/urban planning.

This is far from the first post I see here about "bringing back webrings and lists of links", and I agree with them each and everytime, but this is the first time I've considered the "professionnal" use of it.

What if, on my website (adricure.fr, which I need to rework at some point), there was a list of other artists.Friends whose business I want to see florish, peers whose craft I like.
It seems so counter-intuitive for the place that hosts your portfolio, the thing that gets people to look at your work and hire you, to say "check out these other cool artists who you could hire instead", and yet!
What if my site showcased a sense of community and pride in my peers, instead of individualism? It wouldn't even take that much space. What if?

Not to mention, lately I've been thinking of engaging in another creative business (I'm keeping the specifics vague until I'm closer to doing it), one that is niche and different and would require an entire different website.
I know no one in that community (I mean, I follow people whose work I like, but nobody knows I exist), and I already know that to get noticed I will need to network, an activity that feels so shallow and hypocrite that I already hate the idea of needing to do it (and yes, I know, "good" networking is something that's supposed to happen naturally as you naturally engage with people. But I have limited social spoons and so that's never seemed to work that way for me).

I'm thinking of a web where I don't need to befriend every other professionnal in the niche, just aknowledge that I like their work and maybe get aknowledged back, and then if friendships do form it's independently of marketing needs.
I don't know if we have the power to bring that web forward again, but it sure is nice to thik about.

I want to know that this person I vibe with also vibes with this other person and/or their work. I don't need it to be perfectly statistically modeled or accurate info. I just want to know that I won't feel bad when engaging with the thing that is being shared.