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[META] Are paid for, closed source projects, being advertised on this community, appropriate? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by breadsmasher@lemmy.world 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:

first post is a brand new project
project is closed source
project will cost money
is asking for free testing
the post is literally an advertisement

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[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm aware, and don't think that ads to provide free labor for a paid product belong here. That's been my entire argument the entire time.

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’m aware, and don’t think that ads to provide free labor for a paid product belong here.

I honestly think, that the OP/Dev in question acted in good faith. I do not view his thread as an advertisement to buy his product. IMHO, he solicited beta testers for his product that integrates with the *arr stack, which the vast amount of selfhosters deploy early on in their selfhosting journey. Where else would be a better place than a selfhosting community?

[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The question isn't "did OP act in good faith".

I do consider it an ad to recruit people to do beta testing for a paid product. I don't want to see ads in my feed. If I wanted that, I'd go to reddit. Maybe they should post there instead, where ads are overwhelming and users don't give a shit about being advertised to constantly.

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I do consider it an ad to recruit people to do beta testing for a paid product.

Fair. You do, I don't.

[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago (1 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.

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world -2 points 1 day ago (1 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.

[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't smoke with people who like ads shoved down their throats. It's a personal thing.

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

No worries mate.