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Artists require an audience if they're going to share their work - otherwise we might as well just hang our works up on our fridge and be done with it.
Lemmy is a very small audience at present.
They also often rely on commissions or supporter pages to cover costs or make a living, which Lemmy is often hostile to.
Where did you get that from? Why should Lemmy be hostile to that? We often get posts about donating to valuable projects and such.
Its just been my personal experience browsing, sorting by new. Generally, anything that could potentially be viewed as an ad (nonetheless a paywall) gets downvoted. For example, I used to see more art shared, and often users who included watermarks (even non-disruptive ones), or links to a patreon would be immediately downvoted. I've also seen YouTube creators criticized here for simply selling merch. Even just a couple days ago, I commented on the same trend, and another user quickly replied to tell me its a good thing nothing here can be monitized because money ruins everything. There are exceptions, esspecially with open source software, but these seem more the exception than the norm, in my experience.
People on lemmy downvote anything it’s actually really harmful to the user experience.
Like a completely harmless post into a niche hobbyist community is often downvoted because a couple people on all decided to downvote it for no apparent reason.
You guys see down votes?
I’m on blahaj so I don’t have them enabled but yeah before I switched to blahaj I did