This is really comforting - especially as I'm a self-employed freelancer who has continually left traditional social media sites and moved more and more onto the Fediverse!
this post was submitted on 15 Apr 2022
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The thing that most content creators don't get, and fall victim to, is that those platforms are created with the sole purpose of being the place where people go for content. This way, the platform gets a piece of not only any profit from the content which is successful, but also gets mindshare, and cachet from even failure to find content. That "almost what I wanted but not quite" feeling gets associated. So people keep coming back to the failure platform, hoping that one day the content they want will be there.
IG is so full of "influencers". Eye roll. I'm happy you found a better place. Also, maybe an Etsy store? I'm considering it for selling crafts.