Bands In Town works pretty well for all the bands I follow.
I agree but fb is the only place for musicians and show/event notifications, not to mention TONs of non tech savvy small businesses use fb SOLELY for their business info and hours.
Its never going away.
nightlily@leminal.space 5 days ago
roserose56@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
Business info can be found anywhere through duckduckgo, google or with a phone call! I never knew that musicians use FB, I guess for promotions ? After leaving FB I used YouTube and bandcamp for new music.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
I meant local music and such. There’s no other avenue right now for that. Local city events too
underreacting@literature.cafe 4 days ago
I have a local newspaper subscription that often have articles/info and/or ads for local shows and festivals - one can even go to the library to read it every day for free if paying isn’t in one’s budget (but I like paying for it, it’s a lot of fluff but sometimes they dig up something about how my city is being managed or mismanaged, and they have shone a light on a few desperately needed changes in local government).
I also know most venues in the area that host small bands and can check their website or get their newsletter through email.
There’s also flyers being taped up at the store, library and on maintenance boxes and poles around town for current events and activities (that’s how I found my knitting club!).
There are probably ticket vendors where you can flag certain bands or venues or maybe genres and get an email when something is booked in your area.
Just walking my city, talking to people, looking in shops and venues, and being present outside I get a ton of info about local events. I don’t miss FB. I don’t need a global mega-site to tell me what’s happening outside my own door.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
I love papers, but I can name about 1 other person who reads the paper in my town, and theyre dead because they were 98.
NO ONE reads papers anymore. Very few look at flyers in public either, they stare at their phones no matter where they are.
The only way is for a new service to come out that every single person jumps on. That wont happen, so we have fb, and will have fb for 20 more years. Look at Craigslist, no one touches that since marketplace exists, there’s no reason to, and its more dangerous since you cant see a profile of a person (yes, those could be fake but that takes effort)
mrlemmyhimself@lemmy.world 4 days ago
There was this new technology in the 80s that took over in offices. It became so ubiquitous that people bought the machines to have at home, and it found a less-than-optimal use-case as a general communication device. In the 90s, as its popularity boomed, it would be totally reasonable to make the same assessment you just made, that they would never go away. But when was the last time you used a fax machine?
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Im sorry, I dont feel like your comparison is relevant. Until something exists thats brain dead easy to use and has a ton of backing like fb, it will be required to have it for any community involvement in a lot of places.
Remember, the internet is scary now and people only want spoonfed services from massive corporations. Anything else is scawwyy.
zululove@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
Facebook is cool but did u have a MySpace?😏
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
If a business uses Facebook only, I boycott them.
Facebook and Instagram won’t let me view any of it anyways, but a business should have principles.
OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
For real. Like there are braindead-easy services for building a website. There are definitely alternatives.
Zink@programming.dev 4 days ago
It’s not just a matter of the company’s capabilities. Sometimes the customers demand it.
Very recently a group of moms I know was upset because their plans were weather dependent and the water park they were heading to only posted the closure on their official website and not on facebook!
Yeah we’re all tech gods and they are dummies har har etc. And fortunately my work lets me work at quiet offices and at home. But I feel for the people who have to serve them, because the public IS filled with dummies, but many of them are just nice people who are trying to do business with you. And of course a large subset are cunts, which makes the ignorant decent people get much worse service.
This just reminded me about reading in an article how at some point Musk said he wanted to make X be the everything app. For many people, Facebook is already much further in that direction. That’s where they get their news, text or call their friends, do their shopping, plan their events, doom scroll, argue with strangers, etc. They might never leave it if TikTok wasn’t so deeply soaked into their neurons.
Needles to say, these people are exactly the type of conservative or recovering conservative people who should be far away from facebook. And I’m not excusing them. But I can at least understand the position folks trying to do business with them are in.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Not as brain dead as an fb page xD there’s tons of businesses solely using fb.