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:

  1. first post is a brand new project
  2. project is closed source
  3. project will cost money
  4. is asking for free testing
  5. the post is literally an advertisement
  • speculate7383@lemmy.todayEnglish
    251·
    3 hours ago

    That’s a petty troll response to a legitimate statement of what someone wants (which aligns with this group’s stated focus), where they aren’t claiming what they have done

    • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
      224·
      3 hours ago

      It’s not trolling at all. You stated you got into self hosting because you wanted opensource and you want to retain all of your data. I’m asking you to share your homelab set up. A lot of people would be genuinely interested. The point being, all the gnashing of teeth is a duplicitous argument. If you truly do as you stated, then I’m wondering how you search a global internet from your homelab that indexes it all.

      • cecilkorik@lemmy.caEnglish
        103·
        3 hours ago

        Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. You’re sealioning this guy about his self-hosting setup and implying that we must freely accept all closed source and closed data in all areas simply because the “search” you seem to have rhetorically fixated on doesn’t have a fully independent open source implementation?

        That’s a disingenuous argument, and you’re absolutely trolling. With all due respect: shut the fuck up.