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?

  • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    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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      1 year ago

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

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        1 year ago

        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.