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RE: An artist vs. the algorithms

in Rant, Complain, Talk2 years ago

Ithink one of the challenges is these companies know what’s shifting in the landscape with television dying and internet content growing more profitable. That means unless you pay the gatekeepers you won’t get your content discovered as easily if it shifts around a bit as you said it does. I don’t know what the best solution would be but it’s a good idea to keep at it but also work a job that pays the bills so you can have multiple sources of income until the one you want takes over.

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I feel like social media is already totally dominated by people who optimize for success at social media which means treating it as WORK. I thought there were still a few cracks where it might not be like that but I’m starting to feel it’s not even worth looking for it. I can just copy and paste certain things I share at hive on social media and focus more on hive and discord and IRL. I don’t really want to give myself an extra job with twitter and YouTube. If it’s not fun it’s really not worth it. I might have earned 4000 usd in hive last year? How much time and effort of doing much less fun work polishing everything to be shiny and addictive would it take to earn that at YouTube? Years probably. The exponential growth from there is the only benefit of using those platforms and it’s so unlikely, I’d rather stick to a new linear plan