Strypey"One of the biggest mistakes I see Musicians make in this area is manufacturing distance between themselves and their audience."
#HahkoMcFarlane, 2025
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"Whether it’s intentional or not it often feels like artists are almost hostile towards their own audience, or at least embarrassed by them. They don’t reply to comments, they don’t follow people back, they don’t engage - even though the musicians themselves are begging for engagement!"
#HahkoMcFarlane, 2025
This is the definition of parasocial relationships. I've never understood the logic. Sometimes I get behind, but I always try to reply when people @me here.
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I'm not trying to market anything here, as such. I'm just a concerned citizen, engaging in a bit of democratic deliberation, citizen journalism, and occasionally independent media production (more of that coming soon, all going well). As well as a bit of shitposting and fun stuff along the way.
To paraphrase Red Emma, a revolution without shitposting is a revolution not worth having : )
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But when I was actively trying to pull in customers for Bridge Seat Co-op, or when I've got email and fediverse integrations set up and I'm encouraging people to subscribe to disintermedia.net.nz, forming 2-way relationships with people just seemed like ... the decent thing to do. That it's obviously a more effective way to turn "traffic" into committments to buy your stuff too is beside the point.
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Unaffiliated Music Thing@strypey
This might be seen as a contentious reply but, as far as my own experience goes, musicians have become quite needy... they don't want any kind of feedback over praise and they can also turn 'bad' when they don't get what you can do for them.
Myself? I try to reply to comments, actually like a discussion about music, techniques and methods etc but remain quite isolationist and reluctant to engage with people who meet the criteria above.
Light@strypey Btw, apparently archive.today has been caught falsifying archives.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures/
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures/
