Cuthbert wrote: Been on ig for a few months. (real late to the party!) its really cool though. Lots of cool people to connect with and loads of good beat making content, discovered a lot of dope beat makers and music already. Never really got on with twitter but instagram seems dope.
(Cuthbert quoted from the thread viewtopic.php?f=6&t=12572)
I'm an avid user of twitter to the point my account feels like a human operated bot. I like the whole news feed aspect of it. You can also upload 2min30s of video which is great for "donuts" like tapes . I didn't use that feature for now but I'm really thinking of it considering I want to escape the dictatorship of views from services like YouTube or even SoundCloud. I must admit they helped me know why I'm listening to someone else's tape : it incites me to create. I think the most frustrating part in getting to listen to other producers' work is that you realize how much you want to allow yourself more time to do the same and not the amount of views that triggered an algorithmic distribution routine. Algorithms made laziness painful for someone aspiring to create for the sake of it. Whenever you just had to listen to a track on the radio, inspire yourself from it, satisfy yourself in doing what you felt was kind of building on what made it distinctive to your ear, now you're blatantly given insights on who, what, where, how and why it is consumed. No more innocence or romanticism : " now you know ". Doing on your own by your own is an ethic hard to maintain. An attitude that has been natural since your first drawing as a kid is now in peril. The scheme is proportional to the simplicity of those innocent moments of sheer creativity : the more you're able to feat a category, the bigger the reward. Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, SoundCloud, YouTube, etc... are social networks. Which one do you think is gonna help you create ? I'm not speaking about getting venues, meeting people, etc... I'm speaking about laying a blueprint, helping you assess what you did, do, will do, want to do. Personally what I like in Twitter is that you have to work around its limitations. It helps you keep it simple and you informed. You can also collect everything in that one place like a pad. The drawback is that notes are notes and you can loose the social and emotional aspect of such service. I'm even thinking in a near future of expliciting vocally my retweets (more to myself than to others but while welcoming feedback). So why not Twitter over another social network ? Is your favorite one helping you create ? In what ways ?
