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Aral Balkan Dec 20, 2022

Are folks really pressuring independent artists, authors, etc., not to promote their work here?

Do you also picket your local independent cafe and mom and pop stores? What happens if you succeed in shutting them down? That’s right, you end up with a McDonald’s in their place.

Please learn to separate capitalists from folks trying to survive under capitalism. Independent people trying to pay their rent isn’t advertising, it’s existing. What Coca-Cola does is advertising.

#fediverse ❤️ #indie

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@aral

Quite frustrating that some people are arcing up about actual creative types wanting to make a living, and occasionally sharing ways their followers can support them.

Compare that to accounts here that harvest followers purely to grow an 'audience' that can be sold for influence. Or worse, accounts that steal other people's creative work (photos for example) to do their follower harvesting.