this post was submitted on 28 Sep 2023
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I noticed this on Mastodon and Lemmy. If you share your own music it often gets downvoted or people tell you that Mastodon isn't the right place for promotion. It's really discouraging. Artists who share photographs or paintings get hundreds of upvotes, while musicians get told to not even promote their free music.
Same for non fiction writing. If people can see how you might make a living from what you make, they love to downvote it to oblivion. Guess we're all suppposed to have office wage jobs all day and write fanfic for free at night. It definitely keeps me from ever posting about my writing.
Are there places to post writing? I used to haunt r/writingprompts
Yup! !writing@literature.cafe & !writingprompts@literature.cafe