RE: Changes on Music Community || Cambios en la comunidad de Música

about 1 month ago

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Hello everyone. I'm not someone who usually complains, but I feel compelled to share some honest feedback.

This community hasn't been supporting professional musicians adequately. I often see amateur performers singing covers into a phone camera and receiving lots of engagement, while highly experienced professionals — with strong résumés, original high-quality productions, and participation in international live music festivals — get very little attention.

A curator should not be competing in contests within a professional music space. Instead, this community should focus on connecting professional musicians and DJs, and promoting high-level music education.

Speaking for myself, the only person who consistently engages with my content — which is 99% original music — is @steevc. I’m currently organizing the third edition of the Equilino Jazz Festival. Despite being a professional musician, I’ve taken the time to listen carefully to every submission from other professional bands who want to perform at the event. And as musical director, I’ve even chosen not to perform myself — to give space and full attention to the other artists.

Honestly, karaoke is the least of this community's problems.

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@ylich 77

24 days ago

Hi!

I understand your point perfectly! As a professional musician myself, I have often felt that my most professional works are not valued.

However, there is one aspect that needs to be understood: what makes curation on Hive more complicated. We are on a blockchain whose White Paper establishes principles that guide the type of content that should be rewarded.

The "raw material" that our blockchain works with is text. Content that can be converted into blocks of code is text. Therefore, text is the first ingredient it must have. Videos, audio files, and images are not stored on the platform; only their written links are stored. Based on the concept behind Hive, a video with only a few lines of text is not ideal material for voting.

Of course, many projects often overlook criteria such as this, but we must understand that curation on Hive must follow its guidelines. This issue has been discussed in many fields where "clashes" also occur, such as literature and painting.

Unfortunately, we cannot start with regular curation standards here, but rather with those that correspond to this blockchain.

It's true that one is not always satisfied with the results!

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@steevc 80

14 days ago

I'm not sure I agree with this. The blockchain is limited in that it only stores text, but the Hive platform can be used to share any type of content, even if it the media is hosted elsewhere. Then it is up to people what they vote on. There are no rules on what deserves votes.

I have been doing what I can to support some amazing musicians who are on Hive. It is not a big audience, but they seem to like the principles it is based on when other platforms are exploiting users. If we can get a few more pro musicians here who will persuade their fans to join too then we have the basis for building something.

I am an amateur musician and I think all music should be welcome here, but we should be aware of what content will bring in more people. Quality does matter.

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@ylich 77

13 days ago

I agree with you! I'm referring to the curation standards on Hive, which I respect, but don't necessarily agree with...