art, comics, opinions
People want things to be easy, and they don’t want to feel obligated. I think this is why RSS has always had relatively low adoption rates, even in the blogging hey-day of the mid-2000’s.
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Most artist websites are bad. They either fail at their purpose, don’t have a purpose, or their only purpose is to point visitors to more active social media.
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Everyone has a bone to pick with existing social networks. There have been a lot of attempts to create new social media sites over the years. Basically none of them have taken off in a real way. Maybe they will, eventually, but then they’ll have their own problems.
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Don’t get me wrong. Sketching digitally is great. I’m not suggesting that all sketching be done traditionally, only that you consider spending some time doing it. Even if you’re not an artist.
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Freedom from algorithmic news feed requires just two steps: 1, Content creators need to put their content on a site they can fully control. 2, Audiences, fans, and followers need to embrace neutral, third-party aggregators (e.g. feed readers) that can pull from sources.
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Social media is convenient. Not only do you not need any technical expertise, you don’t have to build anything at all. It’s much easier for people to find you, and they don’t have to manually check your feed every day. Everyone they follow is combined into one feed. So handy!
But: algorithms.
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