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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 And meanwhile, posting on my business Instagram, where people are following me particularly to see my Etsy updates, where I try much harder to please the algorithm, where I spend much more time to make high quality advertising content and so on, I got much less engagement then here.
Mastodon feels like a nice small community of people trying to help eachother as much as they can.

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