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 I notice some people are good at promoting their stuff, while others really feel that it is "tacky" or something. I certainly fall into the latter camp, but part of that comes from my sense that it is either "please see my Patreon" all the time, or "here's some art to look at". And I'd *rather* be in the latter camp, but there *has* to be a better way than that.
