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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      While FMHY isn’t an art-focused instance, I’ve had a pleasant interaction with one of its admins before, so I poked them (Kaizen) about this.

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          FMHY now has an updated rule: “4. Self-Promotion is fine, but please keep “donation” links in your bio.”

          I have replied, asking about watermarks and other ways of reminding people to look there. Though I think watermarks are pretty much gonna have to be accepted anyway, as they’re necessary to deal with people reposting without credit anyway. So you could just have a visible artist tag somewhere on the art, have a link in your bio, and it should be alright?

          Edit: So yeah, watermarks are totally fine. And other reminders to check the bio for a link might also be? Just got a “yeah that’s fine” and I’m not sure if I can actually re-read my own messages to Kaizen. Anyway, the main point is to prevent people from spamming links, apparently.