I decided to shift to using my main instagram account to exclusively browse and engage with other music related accounts. So I made a second private finsta and Iāve just been sending anything in my feed that isnāt music there and unfollowing from the music account. Meanwhile on the new account, Iām telling every single reel it shows me whether it interests me or not.
Already, Iām seeing less celebrity worship or cosmetic surgery content or clickbaity stuff etc etc that I otherwise might have just mindlessly engaged with despite not caring about and not wanting to see more of. I feel weirdly empowered for the first time ever to shape my social media experience rather than simply attempt to avoid altogether this thing that makes me feel like my brain is rotting. And another upside is that my music account seems to be getting more engagement from accounts that donāt already follow me on the music related content that I post. Wish Iād done this a long time ago, I feel like itās what a lot of artists already were doing but I stubbornly wanted to keep everything in one place for so long.
I donāt think Iāll post to the other one at all I just want to be able to look at like memes and recipes and visual art without confusing the algorithm of whatās intended to be a professional account . Iāll prolly still steal and then post said memes on the āprofessionalā account tho because thatās just the kind of professionalism I exhibit in my important work as a DIY musician.
