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.

  • moonpiedumplings@programming.dev
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    16 days ago

    On reddit, there is a community called r/progressionfantasy, which is about a specific type of fantasy fiction. They have a rule that self promotional posts (for paid books) must be preceeded by 10 comments, and actual engagement with the community.

    This is a reasonable compromise, in my opinion. Known community member who has been answering questions and contributiting to discussions?

    I would be okay if they dropped a paid product of good quality and with a reasonable business model (please no vibecoded slop).

    But drive by ProductNameAccount users who have never posted on lemmy before a bunch of self promotional posts? Yeah ban that shit.