mrcleansocks

joined 1 year ago
 

I'm curious if anyone has good resources for building local real world communities outside of the context for business purposes. I've been a musician for the past 15 years and have participated in my fair share of playing and attending shows all over Southern California.

One thing I always have found interesting is the multitude of communities that partake in doing live events and how those subcultures manifest. They are always in a constant state of flux and there the pockets of people are constantly evolving.

More recently, I've been thinking a lot about organizing events for my own sort of community, but I'm not really 100% sure where to start. I used to book lots of bands in the past but the landscape has changed radically, and now I'd like to do community building with a bit more purpose.

I'm looking for any sort of online research or book recommendations/lectures with people have vast experience building communities that are not primarily focused building community for monetary purposes. I only say this because it seems like a fair amount of businesses have co-opted the phrase community for their own gain, and I'd really like to try to learn about strategies people have developed for building community for the sake of community and nothing else.

That being said, if there is anyone who does music stuff in Southern California that's a bit more interested in chatting about this, I would love to chat.

 

Video seems relevant for our current situation.

[–] mrcleansocks@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

I've done the 16 hour day for a music video I was directing. Low pay, but tons of fun. Wouldn't do it again though. I try to plan my shoots out much better now.

[–] mrcleansocks@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I usually got down voted for opinions that I held on topics like cryptocurrency. There seems to be hivemind mentality about certain topics and going against the grain on reddit is not allowed. There has obviously been a lot of bullshit around that topic specifically, but I never took the downvotes personally, I just assumed people were being to dense to try and have a reasonable discussion.

[–] mrcleansocks@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Album is fire

 

Hi all, I've been tinkering with programming for the last couple years as a hobby and am very interested in learning how to do it at a much deeper level.

I made an attempt to get deeper into it at the beginning of this year by reading some books and started with Eloquent Javascript. I got to around Chapter 6 and it started to get incredibly difficult. I didn't have a hard time understanding most of the concepts at a elementary level, but the examples and exercises that were utilized in the book seemed to jump up in complexity without much explanation at times. I remember spending a few hours on some of the provided examples where I was annotating the code just to help me understand blocks that were 10-12 lines long at most.

I'm not saying this isn't effective, but I guess I'm hoping to find something that ramps up at a bit more of a gradual pace so I don't feel like I'm stalling on one problem for far too long. Those moments can be incredibly frustrating and make the marathon of learning much harder.

I'd ideally like to utilize a resource that helps me compartmentalize the broader landscape of tools in the Javascript/React/Node.js world and then go back to a book like Eloquent Javascript and for further drilling etc.

That being said, I'm curious if The Odin Project is a good place to start? I was looking at the full stack javascript course and it looks like it does some Intermediate HTML/CSS which is definitely the skill range I'd consider myself in. For reference, I've got a lot of experience doing hobbyist server management with Ubuntu Server, Linux CLI programs, Unraid, Docker etc.

Note- I'd prefer an online resource that's free, which is why I ask about the odin project.

[–] mrcleansocks@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I haven't really dived down the customization rabbit hole for linux yet, but I've been poking around, and after seeing stuff like this tons of the stuff that was on UNIXporn, it makes me want to seriously try out some of the other DE's that are out there.

[–] mrcleansocks@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think people are used to a web that’s solely focused on viral content as opposed to deeply engaging content. For that reason people don’t think their contributions are valuable and decide to not post.

The truth of the matter is actually that real communities are dependent on the non viral content. So it’s important to reframe how we act in a more tight knit web community and treat it more like a party than a competition to have the most viral piece of media.

The sooner we can get back to casual conversation as a means for real community building, the sooner we can get away from the perpetual viral doom scroll environments.

[–] mrcleansocks@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Same experience here. Definitely feels high priority based on my experience so far.

[–] mrcleansocks@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Wow. I’m shook that you chose this passage. It was literally my favorite passage in the first portion of the book.

My jaw dropped when I read this and I took a photo of it and stored it in my phone. I have an album of excerpts for quick reference and this was one of them. Love that this resonated with you as much as it did for me.

And yes… all this through Lemmy makes it seem like it is truly the first step in our collective heroes journey. We just have to return to the centralized lands to tell of the federated and decentralized lands ;)

[–] mrcleansocks@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I’m a couple chapters into this book right now, and Campbell has some incredible writing. It may be a bit dense for some, but I’m really enjoying it.

[–] mrcleansocks@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This band is for real crazy. Friend recommended I listen to their fingerprints album, which is basically just a bunch of short song nuggets that are a few seconds long. It’s pretty ridiculous, but really fun.

[–] mrcleansocks@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It’s for sure possible without an huge audience. Sometimes being able to capture even an audience of 5-10 strangers can be powerful.

I played a show in Seattle at a bar last September and during one of our songs, I saw someone in the audience look to their friend and mouth “what the fuck” - as in we had sounded really good and they were shocked by that.

Afterwards we had a really great conversation and that person told us we were one of the best bands she had seen at that bar.

I think the energy thing is something that is palpable when the music is just undeniably good and fills the room, crowds just throw fuel onto the fire.

[–] mrcleansocks@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m curious, was the Reddit alternative non Lemmy based? I know there have been a bunch of attempts have been tried, but I didn’t keep up too much.

[–] mrcleansocks@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I’ve been going to punk shows and playing in bands for years.

One of my favorite things about a show is when a band is absolutely crushing it and there’s just an electric feeling in the air. It’s hard to describe, but the music gets the entire room of people synchronized in vibe and people just want to move and have fun.

It’s a rare thing, but when it happens, it’s unreal. As a musician, I’ve been chasing this high my entire life. It’s an incredibly hard thing to do, because sometimes the best music feels like it’s on the edge of falling apart, but doesn’t… that might be what makes it so great.

 

I'm a musician and have been a musician for over 10 years. Only recently in the past 4 or 5 years have I really gotten into recording myself on a DAW and if I'm being honest, I've gotten to a point where I can really make some stuff I enjoy. It's not always easy, but I can get some pretty banging tracks going.

this sub-lemmy is the only music related community I've seen so far, but I'm curious how many Lemmy users are also music makers? I produce in Ableton and Bitwig, and do everything from Alternative rock to ambiance, film scores, electronic synth stuff. Not going to share any links though because I don't want this to come off as a self promotional post

Really just curious if maybe theres enough of us to warrant some sort of sub-community for music creation chat.

 

I just saw this post over on r/modcoord which is basically a massive list of subreddits participating in the blackout protest. If I'm being honest I haven't seen this much anger and coordinated frustration since the era right before the digg exodus.

Assuming more and more subreddits join in, it's going to send a pretty massive message to the users who interact with a blacked out subreddit. Then I'm trying to imagine what happens if after a massive coordinated blackout, Reddit continue on the current trajectory. Is Lemmy even prepared to handle the amount of potential incoming traffic that API closure could lead to? It's absolutely bonkers to me that the Reddit team might just stay the course....

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