Reply To: The Evolution Begins: Why LinkedMusicians 2.0 is the Future + THE LATEST UPDATES

[LinkedMusicians]

I realize that it’s A LOT to ask people to make the move to the subreddit and that we certainly won’t see everyone come along with us. That’s understood, and I have zero hard feelings against anyone who isn’t making the journey with us. This is a passion project. It’s about the love of creating music and my love for sharing that joy with others and encouraging others in that endeavor. But I know this as a strategist. This community will grow at a rate it never could, and come alive like it never could, if we remained a standalone social media platform like we are today.

If I created this to be a deals site, seeing the site hit 1,100 active visitors per day for only being public for one year would be a great milestone. But that was never my objective. User interaction in the community is the criterion that matters, and that simply isn’t here — and I know how to improve that and make our community come alive. My instincts — and partially based on what I’m seeing — is that we’ll see 25% to 35% of our community members make the move to the subreddit. We’re already almost there. IMO, it’s a win and that’s a great. The fact that we had a community member, @fretman step up and take over posting deals so that I can now focus on growing our community and leading the move is fantastic (and we can use more community members posting deals too; I am offering to set anyone up who asks with a deals dashboard with hundreds of deals everyday where they just use their judgement to curate — to pick the deals they think are the best for our community).

It’s how we grow. And if we get to 10,000 users in our subreddit and we’re active, I will reevaluate reopening the forums and social media groups on this site or simply having a one login access to LinkedMusicians site and our subreddit community. As you might have noticed, I’m already working on a feature I had originally planned for LinkedMusicians, music-related theory, trivia, and word games that the community can play together.  When I had to take over deal posting, I was unable to keep working on the functionality I planned to add to the site and lacked the time to do the things it takes to grow the community — beyond growing site traffic, which is much easier than growing the community aspect of the site.

I’d also ask, consider this. While all of the LLMs (AI tools) are knowledgeable on websites, none of them can compare to Gemini, because it has Google’s resources, like their unparalleled index of websites and Knowledge Graph.  I suggest this to you and everyone else reading this, visit Gemini and ask these questions in three separate prompts:

• What is LinkedMusicians?
• Is it any different than the long-established forums like KVR, VI-Control, and GearSpace?
• Do you think LinkedMusicians has been effective at creating an environment that is free of or less prone to the ethically problematic marketing practices from the big traditional forums?

That’s Google’s AI’s analysis of LinkedMusicians, comparing it to alternatives. I guarantee that everyone will learn something about this community that they didn’t know before and no, that is simply an AI chatbot regurgitating copy on this website. It is a comparative analysis and Gemini is great at doing that with websites — better than any other LLM, in my experience.

https://gemini.google.com/

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