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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • Right! Even where you can monetize your hobby, if you’re not in it for the sake of your own personal passion, what’s the point?

    Great art comes from passion and artistic integrity, not from trying to slap together some garbage to make a buck. If you happen to make money in the process, awesome, but if that’s your whole motivation it’s going to come across in your work and put a bit of a stink on the whole endeavor.

    There’s a world of difference between art being enabled by commerce and art being created for the money. The second is self-defeating.




  • Being able to create spaces according to your needs without having your hand forced by anyone is kind of the point of the Fediverse. Beehaw can cultivate a community that fits what they want, just like Lemmy.world. That’s what it’s for.

    There’s nothing stopping you from registering on Beehaw if you want to post there and contribute to that community. But without being able to detach themselves from instances that have open registration, there’s no way to even slow trolls down. Banning would be meaningless, because you can register as many accounts as you could want.

    The point of the Fediverse is decentralization and choice where the default options have been a bland toxic mess.

    Personally, I enjoy both the more cultivated environment of Beehaw and the bigger community feeling of Lemmy.world, so I registered with both Beehaw and Lemmy.blahaj.zone so that i can post and read whatever.

    It’s not about what’s better, it’s about choice.