“tired of affiliate stuffed websites so I made my own site with affiliate links”

uh. right

consider zerotier or tailscale

thats so weird!!

time?

Appreciate the clarification and expansion!

participation as a requirement is a good idea, actually providing first before trying to take

I think the wording is reasonable. appreciate the effort!

Right …

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To be very clear. I am raising brand new accounts who have only ever interacted with this community to post their paid for product.

Not discussing the product in a wider conversation. Literal first post being “I made a product. Pay me for it”.

I dont think that should be allowed.

What if plex started posting here with their new paid for products?

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Not sure this actually addresses the issue.

1. Ban brand new accounts from posting paid for closed source products where the clear goal is to make money
2. Allow any posts for open source, free solutions where the developer is open and honest about their project
3. Require an AI SLOP disclosure.

The rules need to be clarified. Again, whats stopping any big corporations shilling their garbage here?

in summary, youre happy for advertisements on this community. got it

I dont want to scroll lemmy to find advertisements.

why are you fighting so hard for it? do you want adverts here? do you want every post to be yet another closed source paid for project? Thats sad.

discussing a product is not the same as someone literally advertising their paid for product.

are you ok with advertising on this community?

that is incredibly misleading.

its not someone asking advice about a closed source app. its someone shilling their own paid for product.

why are you ok with advertising for paid for products being shoved down your throat?

they arent “willing to give it away”. theyre willing to give it to testers for free labour to test their paid for app.

are they charging? is it open source?

Might be wrong, not a mod. My interpretation is if youre discussing hardware in the context of self hosting itd be ok? But general hardware posts (like news, new products) arent appropriate

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