ThistleArts🏳️‍⚧️🎨🔞Aug 23, 2023

Let’s say it loud and clear:

There’s nothing wrong with promoting your small business, your art, books, your services on mastodon or any other social media.

Self promotion is not an ad!

It’s being part of a community.

People have to do it. Other people might need and want the good stuff their community members might offer.

Mutual support and buying from your community members is good, wholesome and necessary.

Boost if you agree, so creators feel welcomed to self promote here
#mastoart

Show threadKeelanAug 24, 2023
@ThistleArts The r/crafts community on reddit was a cool place where people shared their stuff, and it was friendly to self promotion. Eventually, more self promotors started to show up, and soon every single post was just hollow discussion with the promotor jumping in with Etsy links at the first oppportunity. No discussion on the process, materials, inspiration. Just Etsy links. The problem with self promotion is that some people have no boundaries and it ruins it fo everyone.
Show threadThistleArts🏳️‍⚧️🎨🔞
@keelan I don’t think it will work like this here since mastodon structure is different in its nature. It’s not a forum dedicated to a single topic. It’s a community of blogs where people follow other people whom they find interesting. If someone turns to only self promotion without anything valuable or interesting they will simply not get boosts and follows
Aug 24, 2023 at 6:04amWeb