Alright, Luke delete this if it’s not appropriate.
After logging into Facebook again for harp content, being constantly distracted by overly personal ads, political content, and angry people…I just don’t want to do it anymore. Used to love learning from people this way, anymore….just not worth the hassle and baloney.
So my plea to you all - harmonica knowledge needs a home, one that isn’t subject to algorithmic whims and gamesmanship.
Most content makers I know can’t stand facebook but go there because “that’s where the people are.”
So my plea to everyone here - please bring a friend. And ask them to bring a friend who will bring a friend.
There’s a certain life that these kinds of forums have that is just missing from the scrolling apps.
To sustain it, we need people from beginner to expert.
I think a site named harmonica.com is best positioned to be that home.
So if you know folks that love the instrument, bring em here. Our instrument deserves more than to be a needle in a haystack of baloney.
Just goes to show how many bubbles there are now. I for example had no idea facebook even had (unique) harp content - I assumed it would just be ads and AI content at this point, along with birthday reminders and stuff.
Thanks @Hogie.Harmonica! I feel you 100%. I should really make more of an effort to encourage pro friends to come join the forum. I mean I do ask, but I don’t do enough hounding.
@yuriythebest the Modern Blues Harmonica group on FB is probably the most active group of online harp enthusiasts. I don’t go on FB, except once in a blue moon to pose a question I have on that group because I know I’ll get tons of great responses.
Yeah there’s a ton of content. But it comes at great cost, you give your data up to advertisers and to meta, who does god knows what with it.
There’s a new strategy the media companies are pushing “ads as content” to further blur the line of authentic people’s perspectives and ads, and soon we will have AI agents posting as people. That’s cool and all …but not how I want to spend my time.
