When I joined masto, I gravitated towards following creative peeps and noticed a thing that's pretty common to all of us: we feel guilty for promoting places that people can buy our work or otherwise support us financially. So I started the #CreativeToots hashtag for that very reason. Got an Etsy page? Online store? Patreon? Selling a piece of art? Throw that tag on it. Do it with unfettered abandon. Everyone else: Look at that tag for artists to support. Buy their stuff. Help them create. <3
@WelshPixie Ooh, we should be using this tag a lot more...!
@ExilianOfficial Yeah! Didn't expect it to take off as much as it did, and it does get a load of use - but yes, everyone who creates should use it for selling their stuff or finding backers or whatever \o/
@WelshPixie Yays :) We're a tiny but long-running democratic web community for supporting small & hobbyist geek-creative stuff, so we're kinda here tooting monthly newsletters showcasing folks' projects and regular interesting articles for people and that sort of thing :)
@ExilianOfficial Ahh! That sounds awesome :D