@WeirdWriter @jwildeboer I prefer the Fedi approach to social media. I despise our collective attitude towards creative labor as ONLY an ascetic hobby.

I mean it's not *just* the Fediverse, and there are exceptions. But it ain't the tech. It ain't the architecture. It's the people. Else we'd have folks encouraging Patreon links with the same vigor they encourage alt text.

Tech's broad revulsion to personal economic reality keeps creative folks hungry & art extraction LLM scrapers validated.