@pixelfed I think one of the big challenges fedi media sites face is the warring factions regarding people getting paid. DeviantArt enables/encourages people to make money on their art (which is maybe contributing to its rapid enshittification, but also why a lot of struggling artists depended on it for so long). Fedi users are often overtly hostile to money changing hands, but most artists either get paid a little something for their art or they simply can't afford to do very much art.