I've been posting vinyl on Instagram for seven years now. I've made some friends and participate in a variety of group posts using hashtags as a signpost. AI search has all but obliterated this system. I can't even find the posts where the themes for our group posts are shared anymore. AI determines whose accounts I see. I now see more ads in the feed than posts by the people I follow. Music discovery is all but impossible the way things have degenerated. I'm now going back to blogs, music label sites, and reading- gasp- magazines. It might have the unintentional effect of a shot in the arm to old-school media and the self-published web. Or it will open the floodgates for slop to slime everything. Hard to tell at this point.
I've been posting vinyl on Instagram for seven years now. I've made some friends and participate in a variety of group posts using hashtags as a signpost. AI search has all but obliterated this system. I can't even find the posts where the themes for our group posts are shared anymore. AI determines whose accounts I see. I now see more ads in the feed than posts by the people I follow. Music discovery is all but impossible the way things have degenerated. I'm now going back to blogs, music label sites, and reading- gasp- magazines. It might have the unintentional effect of a shot in the arm to old-school media and the self-published web. Or it will open the floodgates for slop to slime everything. Hard to tell at this point.