We live in a society. In order to target certain people, you have to go to the services that they are using. Nobody doing this shit WANTS to use Insta.
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Diplomjodler@feddit.de 10 months ago
Not trying to be an ass here but if you rely on services like this for your living, having the rug pulled from under you shouldn’t come as a surprise.
thantik@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Witchfire@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The performer pages on FB are FULL of performers complaining about IG. No one likes this shit. Virtually every performer and show page ends up getting shadowbanned, restricted, permanently demonetized, or banned. It’s a shit show.
NightAuthor@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If there’s that many of you, then make something specific for your line of work. Make it a pixel fed instance, and use what working accounts you have to lure people to your site when they’re looking for performers.
Make it semi-centralized, don’t just all spread across the fediverse. It seems like a solid strategy to me /shrug
HeartyBeast@kbin.social 10 months ago
Not trying to be an ass
You may not be trying, but I'm afraid you are succeding. It is surprising when basic functionality like logging in, doesn't work.
TWeaK@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Unfortunately Facebook and Instagram is almost essential for small businesses to get off the ground. It’s not that they rely on the service, they rely on word of mouth, and word of mouth spreads better on mass social media than anywhere else.
player2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Whether it’s a surprise or not, users don’t have a choice of what platform is most popular or effective at getting work. Many applications for gigs ask for links to your social media, it’s the default portfolio that many clients look for.
All that artists can do is diversify to other platforms which have the same issues, and make a personal website which will probably get almost no traffic.
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 10 months ago
But not all at the same time. No single point of failure is the point.