Totally agree and it also seems like the bbc is trying to scare the shit outta people. Everyone does have a right to know, but a crack within the core that's been accounted for by professionals needs a concise article with a way better title than this crap.
Yeam im really digging php these days. Composer and Laravel have made it fuggin awesome! I think more so the frameworks built when php was first picking up steam are a little convoluted and oldschool (im looking at you drupal!... 6 & 7, mostly). The language has come along way since then though, so thanks to the team for all their hard work.
Title is a little clickbaity, but it still stands that FB is some deep shit right now. Zuckerberg's child like competitiveness, coupled with silicon valleys hyper capatalist nature has created a serious problem for current and future generations...
If they start a label, I would hope that it doesn't try to compete with smaller record labels. It should compete with the big dogs and help out smaller ones similar to bandcamp. Idea: bandcamp + spotify...
If they start a label, the smaller labels will be the first one to feel the heat. Spotify would need to swallow them all to garner power so it can fight the bigger fish.
If Spotify start a label and is successful with it, the Music industry will most likely end up worse state than it is now.
I am a musician and we HAVE TO follow the trends to get shows. Used to be a bunch of tools, (I.E. myspace/reverb nation/bookyourownfuckinglife...) but now facebook seems to have dominated DIY events and concerts. Groups help with people to share shows and I'm not really aware of another tool that the majority of people will use to get shows booked in my community.
Even if another tool exists how would I sway people away from FB and to a new tool?
I like going to see small bands, and it's easiest to find them using Facebook.
I "follow" two local promoters and a couple of venues, with the setting to show their events at the top of my timeline.
Friends share events they're going to, and Facebook's algorithm shares them too.
I used to use Last.FM, but stopped checking it once everything seemed to be on Facebook anyway. I still use it if I'm travelling to another city.
I used to get a printed flyer from the promoter when I went to a gig, but they have mostly stopped printing them.
I'd prefer not to have to check 10 promoter/venue websites, magazines or whatever. They probably don't have RSS, and are usually less-complete than Facebook.
ditto here...musician and you basically have to be on facebook. Fans don't check every band & venue website calendars. It would have be great if average folk figured out RSS.
