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

submitted 23 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours 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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[–] SuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zone 14 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Partial agreement. My personal stance - it's a bit like porn. Hard to define but I know it when I see it.

first post (ever, anywhere on Lemmy) is an adverting pitch for their brand new project - FAIL
zero effort LLM generated blurb, with no human steering - FAIL
the post is literally an advertisement and adds nothing else - FAIL
the poster does a post and run - FAIL
the post is bot-shaped - FAIL
poster does not / cannot engage with community - FAIL

The whole thing about paid vs free etc...of course, I prefer FOSS and AGPL, but I don't begrudge anyone trying to recoup costs or keep their source code to themselves. Someone else's software licence shouldn't be a purity test IMESHO

As for the whole AI / non-AI thing...too much of that comes off as performative. I think we can all spot slop, just like we can all spot email spam. In 2026, I assume you used AI to help...and you can assume (if I am interested in your project) I will use AI to spelunk your code base (initially) for borks, then dive particulars.