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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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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I think its funny that anyone who has closed source software thinks the best place to advertise it is in the federation. I love the fediverse but if it was the fact that it was gnu that I checked it out. I would totally not be here if it was closed source.

[–] homik@slrpnk.net 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's kind of the defining feature of spam. Not thinking if it's appropriate or good, just sending everywhere because some of it will generate clicks.

"Just delete it" or "scroll past" is not a useful response. Spam is infinite unless it's blocked and/or punishable.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 4 days ago

well that gets to the other aspect of here. its not a large population to begin with.