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Wild so many creators are pouring their life’s work into these platforms instead of their personal website
by theturtletalks 2mo ago
Wild so many creators are pouring their life’s work into these platforms instead of their personal website
- fwip 2mo agohttps://www.muse.mu/ https://www.muse.mu/
- amazingamazing 2mo 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 2mo 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 2mo agoIf you're a band, your life's work is the music. The platform is just a communication channel.
- theturtletalks 2mo 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 2mo ago...but they do? I don't really see what your point is. https://www.muse.mu/ https://www.muse.mu/
- loganc2342 2mo 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 2mo 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 2mo agonetwork effect.
- theturtletalks 2mo agoInteroperability that POSSE and ATPROTO provide will free us from the network effect. You know what saves us from the network effect? Interoperability.
- throwawayk7h 2mo agoit's in big tech's advantage to not be interoperable. So we must push legislation to mandate it.
- paxys 2mo agoHave tens of millions of engaged fans or just tens? Difficult choice.
- theturtletalks 2mo 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 2mo 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 2mo agoMuse released their 4th platinum album before Twitter was even founded. They poured their life's work into Twitter? That is ridiculous.
- theturtletalks 2mo 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.