Post #1917751

2026-02-10 17:30 UTC

@detours_anachroniques @oblomov @NIGHTEN @victor @gahlord @xenophora @neopostmodern So a few things that emerged from such (very nice) discussion that could benefit other are: * artists have always been entangled in the dominant power structures, difference is that now it sucks us into power structure that have no limited scope (since we also use the same platform for daily life conversations, news information, friendships, opinions, personal archive, etc) - thus our "artistic career identity" dependency create other constrains in all those other aspects... * leaving a platform isn't only leaving a digital place but a whole media culture - that's even harder, especially for those who experienced material change (individual or collective) through such (alienating but impactful) algorithmic media culture (instagram activism, personal viral success story, making it into a scene...). So change that isn't replacement need to be digital, but also infrastructural, and mostly cultural! * distinction in dependency systems between B2B and B2C artists, like are you more dependent on a crowd of people like tattoo or musicians, or of centralized institution in your practice like designer, conceptual art. And the importance of moving institution outside of siloed social media through different localized actions like petitions

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@doriane@post.lurk.org 2026-02-10 17:39

@detours_anachroniques @oblomov @NIGHTEN @victor @gahlord @xenophora @neopostmodern * also how an obvious (since already there?) alternative is the use personal websites, with some form of aggregation implemented in the browser to create sense of connectivity, visibility, discoverability that can be necessary for economic reality of certain artistic practices, but that also swap a dependency for another (browsers, or browser-extensions), and that could look alike activitypub to some extend All that said, I am still thinking of how the fediverse has potential for radicallity. Because what we could have is not the institutions to move as the main motor but the artists with influence moving AND bringing in their own scenes/crowds/people in dedicated instances. Like let the emo music scene make their own instance, and the tatoo artist make their own instance, or the DJs, etc. Because then they will be the ones leading collectively the slow (and difficult) evolution of their own infrastructure and culture! The institution could be welcome in, as an account, but not the ones to entirely decide of such evolution, which could invert or-rebalance some power relationships.

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