spineflu

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@spineflu

whats the opposite of a fixer?

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resident gungler. 30 or 40 years old and do not need this.

paints at fakesambinder

Here? Here's where I post cats and while high.

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erica
@erica
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@erica

seeing artists bemoan this site because "finding posts is hard without an algorithm" but then post on bluesky being like "please share all the art you see because this site doesn't have an algorithm" is gonna make me go insane

spineflu
@spineflu

people talk a lot of shit about local bands' social media presence but its basically the same content¹ for anyone that uses social media first and foremost as a selfpromo tool, artist or otherwise.

(also yes i am saying this as someone who has multiple dedicated art pages. it sucks to post that way too, imo.)

¹admittedly, the local band's content takes longer to digest/observe. music never really broke through into posts the way video ended up doing, did it?

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erica
@erica

like seeing people be like Hey Man Let's Band Together for fuckin BlueSky when they turned tail the moment the stepped foot here is just like... we truly can't have nice things huh

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Ratchetduwang
@Ratchetduwang

It's funny seeing this post since most of the people who "left," other SM like Instagram and Twitter, especially after Elon Musk did... all of that, to give Tumblr a try, said the same things like "omg, it's so boring here? How do you even find stuff??? What am I even supposed to do here" when the site has never had an algorithm before and what YOU see is based on your curation. Social media has gotten too many people used to being spoon-fed things from the trending tag. Also, Cohost is still relatively new so it does feel like a bit of a wasteland here but you can still find a lot of stuff if you look hard enough. It's still growing from what it looks like.

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erica
@erica

I did an experiment a bit ago for two weeks to see where the majority of my audience/traffic was coming from on my Patreon and despite having like 100k on Twitter and 4k on BS, the majority of people clicking through to Patreon came from Cohost. Most SNS have just gotten really good at convincing you through metrics and site structure that your audience is a lot larger than it actually is and that everyone is listening to you when they... kind of aren't. I think a lot of people come here and they see tags, no algo, no recommendations, and no metrics (no RTs or like counts) and think "oh no, nobody is seeing my stuff" but it's like... extremely not true, even with a much lower userbase. And that's with it still growing, like you said!

But yeah I think it's people just maybe not.... realizing that they're actually way more accustomed to these systems/algorithms than they want to admit they are. Some other folks have said it in the replies to this already but there's also a kind of nasty thing of 'people saying they want a community when they actually just want an audience'. There's a pretty strong difference and while 'audience' might get you a lot of numbers, 'community' is what will get you a lot of support and that's kind of what places like this are more interested in building. I just wish it was easier for some folks to break through a bit and see that.

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