It's a two-edged sword: if a creator makes money from their art by shoving ads and marketing in my face, I wouldn't mind them being alienated from most of these communities.

That doesn't mean they can't make money from their art, in fact alternate strategies like crowdfunding and donations for supporting artists are increasingly viable online.

I know it requires a cultural adjustment for most people to actually financially support artists and online services as we're so used to them being supplied gratis, but it's one that has shown itself to work in communities.

[–] dressupgeekout@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

I'm not sure how booting corporations and their advertisements off of the platform will affect individual artists one way or another.

The kind of promotions that big businesses do is, well, incomparable to the kind of self-promotion that an artist does. It's a different beast entirely. At the end of the day, I'd be happy to see individual creators promoting their creativity!