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Jaysyn@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  People keep repeating this for easy self-righteousness. Again, what about small artists whose careers depend on their social media following?

  Fuck Musk, but for better or worse this isn’t just about him.

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  • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Artists whose whole career depends on the whims of social media giants have dug their own hole.

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    • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Easy for you to say. Are you even an artist?

      Small artists need a convenient way to get their work to the eyes of regular people. If their self-hosted gallery is seen by no one, it doesn’t facilitate their career. They generally can’t afford to buy ads they generally and are not popular enough to get a fan made groups spreading the word everywhere else.

      Not to mention that this is such a callous attitude in general. Because you in particular aren’t susceptible to this manner in which wealthy assholes are screwing people, then it’s their fault for needing it?

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      • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I don’t make money as an artist, but I live with two of them. They both migrated to Mastodon, with my technical assistance, and left Twitter before Elmo bought it.

        Bear in mind I’m not the previous commenter, but I believe what they were saying is that the writing was on the wall over a year ago, and there are alternatives. Artists and computer geeks tend to get along with each other, and so most artists should have a techy friend that can help them with exposure online. I understand that switching platforms is inconvenient, and tiresome. Looking at it from a tech perspective however, it’s a better ROI.

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      • Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        they made a home on a platform once, they should be able to do it again. Staying on xitter or whatever is just kind of nonsense at this point.

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      • Mdotaut801@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Get their art into the eyes of regular people? Umm. Are artists like, more special people or something? Lol. I know that’s not your point but that’s how it came across and I couldn’t focus on anything else and started laughing.

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      • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        do you take pride in being the final stragglers left at the bar that’s now a nazi bar? That’s twitter now.

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    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      As they say on the Grumpy Old Geeks podcast, don’t build your house in someone else’s backyard.

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    • JoBo@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      *had limited choices as to which hole to dig

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  • Heavybell@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m not an artist but I know a lot of them and basically only use twitter to follow them. And honestly, the ball is in their court. I see a lot of them complaining about shadowbans and it being impossible to grow a following. But nobody wants to jump ship to a place without an audience.

    The problem being there will be no audience sitting around a new platform waiting for a show to start. They need to start double posting, IMO. Being the change they want in the world. They don’t have to quit twitter, but posting content to twitter and mastodon (for example) would give their audience a reason to move, would give them a chance to grow, etc.

    There’s even apps like PostyBirb that can do the multiposting for you.

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    • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes, and many of them do that, but for most the audience on other platforms isn’t enough to drop Twitter yet. They can join every single alternative but they can’t make others do the same.

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  • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Again, what about small artists whose careers depend on their social media following?

    hope the artists like playing the Nazi bar, because that’s twitter now.

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    • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What a cool comparison to make towards all the minority artists who might be left without a living.

      But I guess you just want to moralize rather than have actual empathy.

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      • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        artists that think playing a nazi bar are fine aren’t artists I want to succeed.

        If you don’t love fascism you’d be in the same situation.

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• Razzazzika@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I apply to a lot of online contests and most have me ‘retweet’ the contest submission link or follow people on the platform. That is literally all I use it for.

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  • RunningInRVA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ever win anything?

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    • snooggums@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      More ads!

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    • Ganrokh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not OP but my mom enters literally every contest she sees and has won a surprising amount.

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      • stevehobbes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Is it stuff she actually wants or needs, or is the garage full of junk she won from defunct companies and a years supply of RC Cola?

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    • Razzazzika@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Sorry just noticed this notification. Yes actually! A $500 shopping spree on a gaming website.

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