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

submitted 5 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour 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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[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

In this context: https://lemmy.world/post/48453617 I think it's just fine.

OP is not asking anyone to buy their product. OP is not shilling their product. OP is asking those who run the *arr stack, and who are interested, to beta test the product, and in return, the beta tester gets the final product for free. This is how beta testing works. Where else would be a good place to have people beta test a product that integrates with what the majority of selfhosters run (*arr stack in this instance) than in a community of selfhosters?

[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 3 points 1 hour ago

This OP's contribution to the community was trying to extract free labor for a soon to be paid product.