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[META] Are paid for, closed source projects, being advertised on this community, appropriate? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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A number of brand new accounts have popped up shilling their paid for applications.

Is this within the rules? Is the community happy with this? Could mods clarify this in the rules?

Either allowing advertising, or banning it entirely.

my point is - there is a difference between an open source homegrown project that might be useful, vs closed source paid for projects from brand new accounts

some replies are misunderstanding, somehow.

I am against

brand new accounts who:

  1. first post is a brand new project
  2. project is closed source
  3. project will cost money
  4. is asking for free testing
  5. the post is literally an advertisement
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[–] 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I'm very aware that you don't consider it an ad, but it's an ad in my eyes. It's literally a call to action to recruit people to improve their paid application in order to extract money from users in the future.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I’m very aware that you don’t consider it an ad, but it’s an ad in my eyes

    I've very aware that you do see it as an ad. So, here we are. I'm about to fire up a bowl, do you partake? It's some gnarly gas for sure. I like to share what I've grown with my own two hands. No strings attached. You don't have to put 5 on it.

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