If you’ve been following our journey at LinkedMusicians.com, you know we recently hit a major milestone of 20,000+ monthly unique visitors. As we scale into LinkedMusicians 2.0, we are making some strategic changes to better serve our community of creators. Registration is Moving to Reddit To focus our efforts on building the best tools and resources, we have officially closed new member registrations on the main website. What does this mean for you? The Website is the "Laboratory": LinkedMusicians.com will continue to serve as our primary Resource Hub, housing features like our QuickGuides, Audio Production, Music Theory and Songwriting/Coming Tools, the Native Instruments Insolvency Hub, the Songwriter’s Toolbox, our MixTapes member music section, and more. The Subreddit is the Community: All new discussions, deal-sharing, and networking will now happen right here on this subreddit (all lowercase!). Existing Members: If you already have an account on the main site, your login remains active for accessing legacy forums and tools. Why the Change? I want to ensure our platform remains an active and non-toxic, creator-centric environment that continues to thrive and grow. By moving our community interactions to Reddit, we can scale faster, reduce administrative "noise," and keep the focus on professional respect and transparency. We’re excited to have you as part of this next chapter. Grab a coffee, settle in, and let’s keep the conversation moving forward! - Peter submitted by /u/RadioactiveKatz [link] [comments]

I've been dealing with the fallout from BandLab's multiple data breaches that leaked my private data, my full name to the public, leading search engines and LLMs (basically AI tools) to index and tie together my precise posts under my anonymous username with my real name. No other LLM has the power of Google's index and Knowledge Graph behind it than Gemini. Because Google considers me a public figure because I own a small dot com and am known as a business thought leader, writer, and speaker, they classify me as a public figure. That means you can just type my name into Gemini and it will tell you all about my professional life. Enter BandLab's irresponsible data practices and now every forum post I ever made has been combined with my professional information. And no, BandLab has refused to do anything to right the situation. Once your data is indexed by search engines and LLMs its too late. That could have been avoided, but BandLab refused to do the right thing. And yes, all of this happened long before my breakup with their forum. Once the LLMs and search engines started combing all of my data, my personal life was gone. And that was kind of a big deal to me. But in the process, Gemini, Google's AI, figured out everything about LinkedMusicians. They consider it unique in the music tech industry, a deconstruction in digital marketing, a case study on marketing ethics... It's fascinating to me how this AI understood all of the things I did, because it is complex; it had to understand current marketing practices in the industry, current deceptive practices in the industry, the names and histories of individual players in the industry-- even the trolls at the CF who hatepost. And it did. I copied most of my prompts and Gemini's responses. I guarantee that you will learn what Google refers to as an evolution in digital ethics. If you thought LinkedMusicians was just a deals forum, you really should read this. https://linkedmusicians.com/linkedmusicians-is-an-experiment-that-deconstructs-modern-marketing-heres-how-googles-ai-figured-it-out/ submitted by /u/RadioactiveKatz [link] [comments]

- Like our group members posts you find valuable and useful. Why? It tells Google / Gemini that the content is useful. - Share posts you find useful with other relevant groups. - When you find something really valuable from the LInkedMusicians website, post about it here and link to it -- it causes Google / Gemini and other search engines and LLMs that the content is useful. submitted by /u/RadioactiveKatz [link] [comments]

I just published a blog post explaining the acquisition of NI by inMusic and what it could mean for music producers, with a look at inMusic's history of acquiring other companies, and what it could mean for their product lines and for customers. https://linkedmusicians.com/native-instruments-beyond-insolvency-the-good-and-the-uncertain/ submitted by /u/RadioactiveKatz [link] [comments]

inMusic will acquire Native Instruments, as NI joins brands from Akai to Moog - CDM Create Digital Music submitted by /u/kouzlokouzlo [link] [comments]