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Wild so many creators are pouring their life’s work into these platforms instead of their personal website
by theturtletalks 17d ago
Wild so many creators are pouring their life’s work into these platforms instead of their personal website
- fwip 17d agohttps://www.muse.mu/ https://www.muse.mu/
- amazingamazing 17d agoIt really isn’t. No one is going to some randos website. Notice how this conversation is here instead of on Engadget itself, comments powered by openweb
- planetafro 17d agoDid you just call the band Muse "some rando"? Ummm, you may want to poke your head out of whatever hole you reside in. :)
- hackernud3s 17d agoIf you're a band, your life's work is the music. The platform is just a communication channel.
- theturtletalks 17d agoTheir website can provide the backbone for concerts, merch, DTC tix maybe? I’m sure the fans that are not on these platforms would appreciate.
- slazaro 16d ago...but they do? I don't really see what your point is. https://www.muse.mu/ https://www.muse.mu/
- loganc2342 17d agoI get what you're saying, but the vast majority of people aren't going to bother going to someone's random website. I think the best you can do in this day and age is put your eggs into as many different baskets as possible, a personal website being included in that. That way, you can maximize eyes on your work and one platform suddenly losing popularity or going to crap doesn't ruin you.
- ghusto 16d agoI and others I know would. Granted we're not the vast majority, but my feeling is that people don't do it nowadays because they've been trained not to. If bands went back to their own sites, I'd say people would follow.
- throwawayk7h 17d agonetwork effect.
- theturtletalks 17d agoInteroperability that POSSE and ATPROTO provide will free us from the network effect. You know what saves us from the network effect? Interoperability.
- throwawayk7h 13d agoit's in big tech's advantage to not be interoperable. So we must push legislation to mandate it.
- paxys 17d agoHave tens of millions of engaged fans or just tens? Difficult choice.
- theturtletalks 17d agoHeard of POSSE? They could post on their websites and syndicate elsewhere. That way, I can access their content thru their website or RSS since I don’t have an Instagram. LLMs are equalizing this. They use curl and Instagram has dark patterns to stop this. So if you ask a question in a specific niche, LLMs will prefer and refer to users who have their own website. It’s the same reason popular YouTubers move to Patreon and Nebula once they get established. You never want to solely depend on a platform that can demonetize, or in this situation, take your handle. Muse might’ve just sold it to them, TBH. I don’t see FB stripping them of it outright. This is not a small band afterall.
- ghusto 16d agoI'm old enough to remember when bands did everything on their own sites, complete with message boards. I _really_ miss that. Twitter is just a middle-man nobody wants when you're talking about artists.
- cortesoft 17d agoMuse released their 4th platinum album before Twitter was even founded. They poured their life's work into Twitter? That is ridiculous.
- theturtletalks 16d agoYou’re right. I was more pointing to artists and creators after Muse that would have it a lot worse if they got their handle taken.