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This doesn't work for artists who need to make a living. The art-buying audience is not on the platforms you are talking about.
artists can make a living from insta? (please assume I am very out-of-the-loop in regards to instagram and modern art stuff)
Believe it or not, it's a source of sales, yes.
Instagram also needs to "make a living". They do that by making your life as an artist harder. You have to make a choice between using software that respects you and having a smaller following, or using a platform that, in every way that you can imagine, is abusing you.
They do make that choice. You just don't like the result.
Neither do they, it would seem.
Then they gotta, as the saying goes, lay in the bed they made, except they're (helping) making it for others, too.
They want the benefit of the privacy-respecting network, they want the exposure of the artist-hostile network, but they don't want to contribute to bringing their audience to the privacy-respecting network. That choice is 100% on them, then.
Yeah artists don't have it hard enough already, let's victim blame them for trying to use tools that used to be less hostile.
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