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.
@m0xee @EkpyroticFrood As always anything that looks remotely complicated will be ignored. We hosted a show here at home recently which ended in open-mic. If you sing one song or maybe two it’s hard to end with “Thanks you I am @ ThisGuy on Insta and BTW you can also find me as ThisGuy on this place you never heard about huh, well it’s many places, you just chose an instance and huh”.
@santiago @EkpyroticFrood
I agree, even an email or a website address would already be "too complicated" in this case 😔
I used to do that with electronic musicians in pre or early social media days — find out their name and then look them up, but sadly it's not what most people are up to these days.
@santiago @EkpyroticFrood
I think I've seen something like that on @weekinfediverse — a very good source for Fedi-related software.
But it was still in the early stages back then, I'm not sure if anything good came out of it or was the project abandoned 🤷
@weekinfediverse @santiago @EkpyroticFrood
Oh, thanks! Yes, Bandwagon it is! It's still too early to recommend to those who do not want to be early adopters, but the development seems active and function-wise it pretty much fits the bill: music, news, shows, links to artist's pages on other resources… Even store integration seems to be in the works.
Once things get fleshed out, artists might make an account on the project's home instance (for a donation to the project? 🤔), or self-host one!
@m0xee @EkpyroticFrood Has nobody made a Fediverse app designed specifically for musicians and their followers ? I mean one with a native app that supports individual musician profiles, group profiles, each with their posts, with events etc and daily posts with rehearsals etc (even if the video is hosted on YouTube for cost motives and sales on usual channels not to compete with big business).