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 Anyone know if Mastodon admins can add custom profile fields? Might be a neat way to encourage members that it's ok to promote oneself and one's work if there's a "buy my stuff" field right in the profile page.
@sivy @WelshPixie In the meantime, create a toot with all your relevant links an "pin" it. It will appear at the top of your profile toots. You can even have more than one pinned toot!
@WelshPixie @sivy Yeah, I didn't know about it for a while, it's a great feature. I pinned my .ART introductions post and am quite happy with it!
@photopuck @sivy I keep forgetting to make a pinned toot myself actually. XD