Don’t do creative things for other people’s praise, do it for yourself!
Yes, and feed yourself via photosynthesis. It’s that easy you lazy artist. Now entertain me!
There’s a very common pattern of “I’m going to focus more on my own life” you get from creators as they realize this.
The financial equation of having talent and using it for free stuff for people on the internet is not a stable one. Even when you decide your reward is attention, the mental toll ends up outweighing that meager reward.
Who hurt you? No one was talking about people doing this shit for a living or for the entertainment of anyone but themselves.
I do the reading and research required to make my posts for myself, but the time spent to turn that into a good post is not insignificant. The sharing is to try to build up Lemmy as a community, and to try to help save other people time doing the learning that I’ve done. It’s an act of giving of my time to try to make a positive change in others’ lives. It’s a voluntary personal sacrifice, and just seeing some happy responses is all I hope to get. It isn’t for people to sing my praises, but to receive a positive comment in return is what shows me that I’m not throwing my work into an empty void and just wasting my time. It’s the only feedback we get here, and I think we should all give more feedback to the posts we enjoy if we wish to keep getting them. I feel that is a very fair price to pay for free content.
3600+ plus comments is awesome dude. I dont know if theres a leaderboard but that has to be a high score.
It feels so strange when I see it as someone who has only ever lurked online and is pretty quiet in person. I liked what I saw when I came here, and wanted it to succeed, and making this a place where people actually converse is the only way to be viable. I can’t make anyone else post or comment, so I just started to do it myself. Sometimes we have to put our natural comfort zone aside to do what we feel needs to be done.
