So what’s your own interaction with collectives, Brad? How does it affect things?

An issue in the back of my mind is the difference between net-native music, which includes yours, and netlabels, which have roots in the old demo scene and which are a different thing.

I’ve been finding lately that old timey acoustic guitar players on YouTube get clumped together by the site’s recommendations, shared keywords, subscriptions to one another, mutual subscribers, and links in comments. I consciously cultivated those relations after the threads here a couple months ago about labels as collectives, and it did yield some