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?

  • manitcor@lemmy.intai.tech
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    1 year ago

    do you want an art community? Ill add one to my instance, a lot of my work involves tooling for artists, im just neckdeep in AI right now.

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      1 year ago

      The art that I create is specifically TTRPG / D&D / battlemap related, so a general art community wouldn’t necessarily work for me specifically - although it might be a good idea for others. I appreciate the thought!

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

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

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

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              1 year ago

              well, self-promotion can be considered an ad.

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                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

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            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.

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              1 year ago

              Thank you!

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

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        I’d be surprised if the D&D communities had an issue. The D&D subreddits allowed artists to link their socials on art posts.

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        start your own instance then, this is going to be the requirement for anyone with particular needs, these instances will not cater to everyone by design.

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          Running an instance is just not in my capabilities. I don’t have the necessary skills and time needed to not only host, but also moderate one. It is a massive time sink.

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            Then you shouldn’t complain, but just wait till someone makes something suiting (will happen sooner or later). People do it for free, so, yeah, complaining is kinda not so nice. Asking kindly would be OK though I guess…

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              Pointing out that the current rules are deterring content creators who make whatever they make professionally isn’t complaining for the sake of it. It’s good feedback the community should consider.