how to make this site not die in infancy
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1. HAVE TRAFFIC. make it an unavoidable step to a meaningful goal. think charging a toll on the road to the king's palace. the goal is an audience with the king, and the toll bridge is an unavoidable step that traffic will be routed over. here, the meaningful goal is to find out about upcoming shows in ottawa and to have a little y2k nostalgia trip. making MORE meaningful goals and ENSURING there are *no* alternatives is how to amplify this site. make it convenient to post more creations to thirdculture; then, if thirdculture-based music or interviews become semi-popular, and they're easily accessible on youtube, insta, twitter etc. then people just wont bother going on this website. keep it special! and if they're using those things and not this website, then they're subject to all the typical brainwashing and corporate exploitation, to being subjected to 4 hours of doomscrolling, to mindnumbing ads and forced content, to algorithms that extract all meaning out of community and creation.
