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I decided to do a bit of a dive into this platform, and while I think it is an interesting idea, I am yet to find a space on Lemmy where I am welcome. I am an artist. I have a Patreon that pays my bills and puts food on the table. Generally, I give the majority of my stuff away for free to the community, but that usually comes with a link to my Patreon, which is optional, but is there for people if they want to support me. I need to eat too. As far as I understand, that is not allowed here. Or pretty much any other instance I've come across on Lemmy. The obvious solution is to create my own instance, I suppose, but I am already running two communities on Discord, and generally work ungodly amounts on my art, so adding running an instance on top of that is just not feasible. I also lack the needed technical skills to run something like that. In the meantime, I am constantly seeing people complain that there isn't a lot of content here. Guess who's good at creating content? Creators. But you need to allow us to eat in order to create content for you. Am I alone on this?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do we have a battlemap community here? I saw one that someone had made around somewhere, but I don't remember where

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

yeah, we do. It is what made me ask the question. The instance rules apply in that community as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do they have a rule against self-promotion? I thought there was only server-wide rules for ads and spam.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

well, self-promotion can be considered an ad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I guess you could make up ads for your content but that doesn't sound like what you're trying to do. OC is OC. If someone else found your art and posted it with a source, would it be considered an ad to you? Cuz people have been doing that in fanart forums for forever (the artists often have stuff for sale on their pages) and we don't consider that be ads

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cool, I love what's be going on over there. I hope we can include artists like you, your art looks great! And the patrion integration is super natural and unobtrusive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you!

I just don't want to put effort and time into a platform only to get banned lol.