Post #1917755
2026-02-10 05:42 UTC
@doriane @NIGHTEN I would be curious to know how much they actually make through their Instagram self-advertising, how long it took them to getting enough visibility to actually make money from it, and how much commitment to the platform it requires of them. And then compare that to the experience of artists here in the Fediverse.
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@doriane@post.lurk.org 2026-02-10 07:23
@oblomov @NIGHTEN that would be a super interesting study yes. i do think there is a lot of fake dependency there. It's the typical LinkedIn example like it can be a social obligation for some practices (obviously not artists) to be on it while they won't get any actual job opportunities from it. But the few gossipy data i got from friends are like: tatoo artist, DJ or bands within certain scenes, performance artists like dancers are particularly dependent of the fast-paced story-2-lineup-booking pipeline. I think practices that are less "booking for singular events" like graphic design or digital art or whatever are maybe slightly easier to emancipate of those platform?