I've been posting vinyl on Instagram for seven years now. I've made some friends and participate in a variety of group posts using hashtags as a signpost. AI search has all but obliterated this system. I can't even find the posts where the themes for our group posts are shared anymore. AI determines whose accounts I see. I now see more ads in the feed than posts by the people I follow. Music discovery is all but impossible the way things have degenerated. I'm now going back to blogs, music label sites, and reading- gasp- magazines. It might have the unintentional effect of a shot in the arm to old-school media and the self-published web. Or it will open the floodgates for slop to slime everything. Hard to tell at this point.