Maybe things change when you rub AI on it, but back in the dark ages "I wrote a blog post about something I'm learning/learned" wasn't exactly the exception.
Blogging about something you're studying? Seems like it could be effective. It presents your understanding of the subject to the world, and invites critique.
I'm starting to think the abstraction involved in internet communication is really confusing some people. When you copy and paste LLM output verbatim into a text box and send it to someone, that's weird, right? You're sending that as if you just said it. But you didn't. That's what this here is. Even just adding a "this was AI generated" disclaimer doesn't make it less strange.
If this was the real world, the physical equivalents of this would be utterly psychotic and nobody would hang out with you. "Hey, are you just typing everything I say into ChatGPT and reading out what it says?" "No, not completely. I'm changing a few of the words. Plus it's the future, everyone is using LLMs!"
If you're someone who insists on publishing almost entirely AI-generated blog posts, I think what you need to do is give your AI agents wordpress instances because it seems like they're the ones doing most of the blogging and who people who find the posts interesting might want to follow.
Not true at all. Buildings are where culture happens. Systematically destroying them is a mechanism of genocide because it erases the memory in addition to the people. And yes this was a deliberate process by the Nazis [1].
> It’s not “like the Nazis”.
Actually, if the Nazis did something and then somebody else did it too, it's exactly like the Nazis.
> You could easily meet people in your own location who shared your own tastes in music. Where does a person find music-related socializing now
I'd say Instagram serves the role of Last.fm you described (for better or worse). But really you can just go to the gigs and talk to people. That's guaranteed people in your area with similar interests.
This is true, and I hate it. All the local DJs I enjoy post their gigs on instagram and nowhere else. All the fans I know use instagram to get updates about where the shows are happening.
In practice I just wait for my friends to tell me where the music will be, but I also hate the whole setup deeply and want instagram to die in a fire.
No seriously, like 18 months ago I solved this exact issue in my corner of the world by simply creating a static website and putting them there on a calendar and now I'm like a microcelebrity of my own running a "brand" that every organiser knows of.
I want to do the same but I live in a big city (millions of people). How do you recommend approaching this? There is no board/calendar that would get the attention of thousands of people and without that it's useless in a big city.
Check out Austin Texas https://do512.com for inspiration of music/event trackers. Personally, I think a "Whitelabel"-able version of this, ready to be localized to a city/town, would be cool - especially if it generated custom calendar (iCal). I checked out potential alternatives, and really didn't seem much out there - especially that would be attractive/stylish to music fans.
Additionally, an "MVP" could be a single HTML page, which lists all the recurring events, grouped by week-dat on a week calendar. For example, if there's a venue which hosts a weekly jam session on Thursdays, you could add that once and it would always show up for the "What's happening Thursday?" area. Usually there are a bunch of recurring events in any town, so the calendar page quickly becomes a useful "what to do today/tomorrow" guide, with minimal effort.
> There is no board/calendar that would get the attention of thousands of people
What makes you think that? Google/chatbots need a crawlable source. Instagram content is not a crawlable source. Be that crawlable source and they'll send the traffic your way. I get thousands of monthly visitors from Google alone. The next step in the funnel is to make them sign up for a weekly newsletter.
I'd also suggest a giant "purchase ticket here" button on every event page and measuring how many people click on it, it's infinitely easier to approach the organisers when you can easily whip out that statistic on your phone.
We're a small city so not sure how effective it would be for you, but https://theimage04.com/ was pretty revolutionary among the music circles here. Most people I spoke to loved the old-school newspaper classifieds vibe, and that there's no Web 2.0 bs.
You could do something similar and then print out physical copies of it and hand over a few to local music venues, cafes, pubs etc to spread the word.
I started mine last summer but gave up a few months ago. I just couldn't stand looking at insta every day to surface updates, and when I wrote a scraper (read only - no likes, comments, or posts) to do the job for me my account got banned for bot activity.
I also hate meta but unfortunately it's where many scenes live. Path of least resistance for venues, artists, to share their shows. I would disagree with the other commenter who said to "be the change". I've seen dozens of event aggregating sites and what they all lack is actual people using it. We live in Meta's hell, but everybody's there (speaking as Gen Z).
This is avoidable if you have a specific niche though. A lot of groups online and in cities give me hope. What kind of music are we talking here?
For those sounds, I'd stick to resident advisor and following the DJ's you like. Also check out Rinse FM for artist discovery if you're open to the British sound (they invented d&b and dubstep). Massive.
Also the site background is AI slop which makes for terrible contrast with the text.