I’ve never been so unable to relate to someone’s thought process, I love this
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What a braindead take.
Do not remove my spam
If I want to find something, I'll look for it.
Don't dump a truckload of unsolicited information in my inbox/workflow/field of view.
Otherwise you're as bad as door to door religious folks. Oh yes, I've heard about Jesus, thanks. Now let me get back to what I was actually doing a few minutes ago before you begged for my attention.
I agree with OP. They're basically asking that you should be allowed to promote open source, freely available solutions to problems people might have.
It's a lot different from an ad since it's ultimately well intentioned. Of course there might be caveats like not actually being open source or doing a rugpull im the future. But, those can be handled.
I'm so tired of people never even having heard of lichess, or linux, or other foss tools because the marketing for windows and chess commis so aggressive. Most people on lemmy may not realize this, since I suspect we have a uniquely high population of adblock users, on a social media platform with no ads. But regular users, even ones who may be using github, sort of live with in that bubble, and only know about xyz tool because they saw an ad or youtube recommended it to them or whatever.
edit: though I do think they were kinda pushy in the issue linked after users told them no in criticized it for being too new. But ultimately, without that issue people wouldn't even know about their project.
No. Spam is no longer Brownian noise of the internet. It's either the cheapest advertisement one could buy or a scam link to drive-by-download malware. Getting lost in lists of communities or hashtags you haven't known existed is exploration. Spam is unfortunately an embodiment of the original meme and should be removed
Speaking of which, I wonder how long will this post survive on !fediverse@piefed.social
Anyone wants some 🍿?
You would love late kbin.social
For more information: kbin.social itself was compatible both with Lemmy and Mastodon (and similar federated microblogs). You could browse microblogging posts and sort it like Lemmy posts. You could make your own magazine, and (additionally to using it as a comm) you could assign some hashtags to it, which then made toots from Mastodon & co land on your mag based on their tags. /kbin had got Collections of magazines long before PieFed recreated the feature as Feeds.
MBin is de facto a continuation of /kbin software (but without Collections).
However, I am talking specifically about kbin.social not only because it has became larger and more widely federated than any MBin instance to this day. During the late period Ernest (admin and a software creator) was already overwhelmed with scaling issues, firefighting them, refactoring code to prevent these issues, at the same time had some health problems... During these times, doors to register to kbin.social were widely open, the only admin-and-global-mod was Ernest - which meant that he was largely absent, and many official magazines, like m/internet, remained abandoned as well. Spambots ultimately found a way to register to a site, and they massively posted a mass of unpaid advertisements, SEO-optimised articles from South Asia, or something. The community managed eventually to create a TamperMonkey script which hid these spamaccounts (based on regularly updated CSV files AFAIK) from the sight of a user.
These were the times...
Funny that I saw this post in two different spaces by two different users. Proving that even on the “little guy case” needs to use dark patterns…
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