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 Mastodon admins can do anything, in principle, 'cause it's open source
@Efi @WelshPixie sure but not sure how many admins are Ruby developers and know how to add profile fields, code to handle saving them, code to store them, and code to display them...
if the feature is not built in.
@sivy @WelshPixie only one needs to do it and send a PR =3