Supporting a protest of reddit is extremely important for the internet, I mean, I started my own lemmy instance! The ideas are important to me.

But like I, uh, need…money at times. I’ve been kinda down recently in terms of doing artwork, but I’ve hit a very productive groove and I’ve run out of commissions. The way my brain works, it has very high periods of output, with long periods of rest/hibernation. It’s important that I use my periods of productivity to offset my mentally dead months, but like, lol I don’t want to post on reddit. Most especially r/GameDevClassified, but that’s so far been the easiest way to at least get some work.

I have actually been getting a good amount of clients from mastodon! That plus returning clients have been pretty good for most of this year, but July is typically where it’s kinda of my make it or break it for the year. I don’t think I know of anywhere else besides here on lemmy that allows direct self promotion.

  • Kotzwinkle@crystals.restEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Eh, you may be overthinking it. It’s a valid concern for sure. I’m just not sure it’s a reason to lose income over.

    • Nina@crystals.restOPMEnglish
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      2 years ago

      That’s probably true. I just wish there was a place on the bigger lemmys that allowed listings so I could see if it’s viable here.

      • Kotzwinkle@crystals.restEnglish
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        2 years ago

        It 100% would never be this simple, but I wonder if you could work out an exception with a lemmy/kbin owner and then coordinate with an art community (masto/misskey) to promote it.

        • Nina@crystals.restOPMEnglish
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          2 years ago

          I am part of .art’s community for masto, so I can promote there just fine. It’s just specifically reddit was the only place that had indie developers that needed transient work done instead of “partner with an artist for revenue share for years and then I’ll get bored of the project in 3 months”