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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