Yeah, you are totally right! Everything is very fresh here, still forming. I’ll see if I can start a conversation tomorrow with the general lemmy.world admins/ mods.

And I appreciate your interest! I sneakily posted one of my recent maps in one of the communities here haha, so you can see it on my profile.

Pinterest is probably the platform to get a really good glimpse at the stuff I make overall though https://www.pinterest.com/domilleswondrousworks

Karma wasn’t really the point I was trying to make. I was just trying to say that I posted a lot of content on Reddit, a lot of it highly upvoted. I followed all the rules there too - not posting more than once a week on certain subreddits etc. However, that was 99% of my activity on reddit. If I was to do the same here, I would be considered a spammer, and likely banned.

Yeah, I’ll post there tomorrow. Thanks for the advice! I have a feeling it’s just not going to be an option though. “Good” and “interesting” content is subjective. What happens when I post a bunch of “good” content and then a dud? I hope I wouldn’t, but sometimes stuff just doesn’t hit, and then it would mean a ban for me if enough people didnt think it was good enough? Doesnt seem worth the risk.

Great idea about bringing it up in lemmyworld for the admins! I might actually do that tomorrow! Thanks!

I mean… thing is… On reddit i have 80k karma because of my content posts. 99% of my posts there are my content posts. That would be considered “spamming” here, even if I only post once a week.

I’d much rather spend time painting an extra battle map for the community than sit on lemmy to hit whatever quota of interaction to not be considered a spammer.

oh I thought for sure I saw a no ads rule on lemmy.world as well. I am on Gerboa now, no idea how to get to instance rules on this app O.O

I, myself, have very limited time availability, and I really doubt I would have enough technical knowledge to set up an instance myself. I am also already running 2 discord communities… so right now running an instance on top of that is just not an option. That leaves me I guess just to wait and see if someone else creates something like that. Risking blurring lines on instance rules, investing my time and energy into a community that will likely ban me isn’t particularly appealing either :(.

I am actually talking specifically about high quality free items that we frequently give to the community, and post our Patreons, shops etc along with them. It does not sound to me that would be allowed here, right? The instance itself prohibits ads.

So I am interested to see what the community thinks about it, given that none of that stuff will ever be permitted here, looks like.

My question was about the community’s outlook on the presence of creators in this space - and yes, that means at least some of the stuff they’d post would be self-promotion.

I dont think that the platform should turn into just a wall of ads, all of the subreddits had sensible rules for that, like only posting once a week etc.

The instance that this community is on does not allow ads. I do not know whether self-promotions fall under that… I feel like it does? So that would mean none of us are welcome here, at least in professional capacity.