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rchive@lemm.ee 11 months agoI mean, it sort of did, it’s just not quite that simple. A lot of amazing things have come about because of social media. So many artists able to reach people directly without needing gatekeepers like publishers. Movements able to be organized where previously those people would have never interacted.
freebee@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Commenting this on a post about one of the new gatekeepers is quite ironic.
rchive@lemm.ee 11 months ago
The route to getting something posted on Facebook or other social media involves 1 gatekeeper who barely involves itself. The route to getting a book or news article published involves more, and they micromanage the content much much more. Just compare what percentage of people have posted something on Facebook vs have had an article published by a newspaper or magazine.