As seen with Signal Advocacy as well.
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Lemmy and Piefed instances do not have set limits for storage. Someone can upload their digital work in the webp image format to compress their image down to kbs. I don't think any admin is going to be upset towards og artists. Also there could be a cooperative where artists can donate a portion of their income from donations and commissions to help fund their preferred instance's storage costs. This concept already works with Cosocial. it might be necessary for Peertube, Loops and Pixelfed instances to function as cooperatives for creative folks to be viable. The fediverse instances do not have the advantage yet to bulk buy storage space like companies do. The devs are working on embedding third-party services more to work more seamlessly within the frontends and apps. Tesseract automatically compresses images to webp by default.
Videos can be posted from Peertube. The thumbnails can be used creatively there for the image in the lemmy/piefed feeds.
Not admins (except the three problematic instances), users that already complained (very close to the reddit exodus) about gooner art appearing too much in their feed.
For the rest, basically you are telling them to host their own instance and pay for their own storage (which most already do), most don't have the technical knowledge or time to do that, so basically zero incentive to leave where they already are.
The part about the collective might work, but someone would have to get enough of them on board, host where they won't be censored and have a team efficient enough to prevent them getting brigaded (or actually react when it happens).
Also everyone would have to be on board on which software was going to be used between Piefed, Mastodon, Pixelfed, Loops and/or Peertube, specially since not all of them use images only and not everyone does animations.
Then it's just a matter of hopping they get enough exposition so they don't feel like leaving because the reach is not enough to justify giving a part of the comissions to the hosting.