Most musicians in Brazil are still on #Instagram because well they kinda have to because every show (by a non rich & famous artist) ends with “Follow me on Insta @ something ”. I understand it’s not easy for them to leave, even now.
I was just told by one of them a lot of their accounts suddenly started automatically following JD Vance unwillingly. They are all from the opposite political spectrum — and wouldn’t care much about a foreign prime minister anyway. WTF.
@santiago I've been looking for alternate ways to follow people, but if someone is running a "business", even just playing gigs, they use Insta and FB. Unfortunately I want to not be associated with Mr. Zuck's business. I'm not sure what the solution is for people who are just trying to run a business and need to connect but don't have the time, resources and knowledge to do something more complex like set up a web site or something.
@EkpyroticFrood @santiago
There is a static website generator for musicians/bands in the vein of BandCamp: https://codeberg.org/simonrepp/faircamp
It's easy to use and the result looks quite nice, and the best part — it's static, you can just upload the files to any hosting.
But it's no replacement as a communication platform, PixelFed is nice as Insta replacement, but I think it takes some skill to self-host and it still requires your fans to have any Fedi account.
