Thank you for all this feedback. Let’s see.
Join The Social Music Network! explains why and for whom this space exists. People sharing their music and other personal projects is a welcome byproduct (because it strengthens the network) but not the reason why we are creating this community.
There are many beautiful scenarios that may happen, and also the other ones. My main concern is to end up with a bland diluted noisy space that (aspirational) professional music makers and related project roles find a waste of their time, or more of the same, and they leave, or don’t even join. It’s a tangible risk because these people tend to not have much free time, and are very wary about anything new demanding their time and attention.
No-strings-attached? There are also producers that might join only to post their music and vanish, as they do in many places, that will leave links to distrokid linktree spotify (add to this AI generated music produced in bulks) and won’t be here to read whatever feedback about the fediverse and such. For one benevolent Fediverse musician there are 100 producers cranking a song per day with AI prompts, and counting.
But ok, none of this is happening yet, and maybe it never will.
So what about this:
Alright, what about something like (just ideas, no final wording):
Obsolete proposal, see my updated proposal in the description
- Join us to ask, discuss, and collaborate about anything related to Fairness and autonomy for music makers and friends.
- If you have a project for music makers that puts the artists’ work at the center in non-exploitative and ethical ways, it belongs to Projects and see What we offer to projects there.
- Self-promotion in your profile is allowed and encouraged.
- If you have any other music-related project that you want to share, you can open a topic on Members. We appreciate brief intros and updates, linking to your website, blog, social media, etc, for details.
- If you want to share your music, the same. Post links to your music in one topic under your artist name (solo or group).
While self-promotion is allowed, excess of self-promotion will be moderated:
- Proliferation of topics about your creations. 1-2 topics in Members should be enough.
- High quantity of self-replies in your topics. Blogs and social media exist for this purpose.
- Links to music or other creations pointing to (do we need a blacklist?). We encourage (whitelist?) and you can always link to your own website.
- Non-disclosed AI music and graphics. And here you need a good reason to promote AI-assisted works.
- Using your participation in discussions to link to your self-promotion topics. People quickly peceive these tactics.
- Pinging TSMN members in your self-promotion topics to attract visitors. Instead, you can promote TSMN out there to attract new members to our community.
For everyone. No trust levels, no unlisted topics.