We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill

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@AbandonedAmerica I hear you. 25 or so years ago I used to get paid *real money* for writing stuff**. These days, nada, zilch.

** such as https://medium.com/bhoys-of-the-big-house/work-camps-whiskey-paddy-and-the-elephant-john-ccb9be12700d

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109 years ago:
Making a Living (US)
A swindler scams a journalist to get some money and then applies for a job at his newspaper.
1914-02-02
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/53368
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->Personally I'll probably start with itch. Judging from my own circle here, it's the place most people go.

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->discoverability (for the artist) via ko-fi's own website is extremely low. Gumroad fried their own brand in a row over nft's some months ago. Since they both have the advantage of an easy start - the basics of the webshop is already built, and the platform is well known - it's a case of chose the flaw you're ok with and hope potential buyers are too. Itch hasn't been on my radar, so I can say neither boo nor ba about them. ->

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Tempting as it was to set up a Final Showdown between the alternatives above I chose not to. One alternative bloating out all the others is a problem on the internet (*cough* Amazon *cough*), so it's not a thing to encourage. Fanning out over several platforms is better. Especially since at least two on the lists have some major flaws; ko-fi is famously fidgety over adult content and ->

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I set up a poll asking where people here prefer to buy digital downloads. The most popular alternatives in the comments were

•itch.io
•Gumroad

The winner of the poll was

•ko-fi shop

One commenter pointed out that they rather buy directly from artists, so I add

•self-owned webpage/shop

It feels along the lines of Mastodon's vibe. And considering how platforms rise and fall it's a smart move to have one.
(Comment in toot below.)

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Since I'm figuring things out; which one is your prefered platform to _buy_ digital downloads like printables, pdf comics, and wallpapers?

(Please boost, not just to increase the amount of people answering, but since I suspect more artists than me want to know. Thank you! 💐)

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