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This is only ever a problem when the thing they’re being asked to do for ‘exposure’ is normal paid work. In this context nobody is being paid, their work isn’t enriching someone else, they would be contributing like all the lemmy devs, the server operators and everyone else contributing to the operation of the site. Nobody’s approached a specific artist and requested they do this for ‘exposure’, someone’s simply suggested that, oh hey, like everyone else that contributes their time to the site, maybe an artist would like to contribute theirs as well.

Pull your head out of your arse.

And you’re not the artist, so if you could kindly leave the conversation that’d be great!

Why are the keyboards backwards?

I host an old forum with a lot of posts. Back in its heyday it used to consume about 70GB/month total traffic, including images etc.

Now its basically a dead repository and the bots consume 500GB/month of JUST TEXT.

These people are leeches of the highest order. I wish them the worst.