This is the second advertising post I’ve seen on lemmy and they were both today. I’m wondering how other people feel about it or if they’ve even seen posts like this?

Personally I’m livid and hate seeing it here. One of the things that attracts me to lemmy is the donation based, volunteer run, distributed, open access nature of it. I don’t want it to become profit driven and I really don’t want to see companies in what I belive should be a purely social endeavour. I really think making it profit driven will ruin it, if that means it stays smaller then I’m okay with that.

Now I know I can block them and move on which is what I’ve done. I’m also pleased to say that both posts I saw were heavily downvoted and I did my part too.

I’m curious if other people agree with me and don’t want advertising like this on lemmy? Also, what do people think we can actually do about it if we don’t want it around? Petition instance admins to ban advertising accounts? Then how do we define one? Can anything actually be done or do I just have to block and move on from a possibly ever increasing flow of advertising until I get bored and move on?

Sorry for the long rambling post and thanks if you read this far.

  • Cloudless@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I would suggest that you censor the spammer’s company name in the screen shot. They want to have more exposure and they don’t deserve any.

  • 312@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Rules are only as effective as the mechanisms enforcing them - I don’t think anyone wants ads on Lemmy instances, but removal requires moderation tools and staff (volunteer or otherwise) to review everything that’s posted.

    I imagine the problem we’ll see is as growth accelerates, post velocity will outpace moderation manpower - short version, you’re always going to have to do some blocking/filtering of your own.

    • PeleSpirit@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      If it’s against the rules and people report them, then they just go through and block them as they go. I don’t think it’s a huge deal.

      • 312@lemm.eeEnglish
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        1 year ago

        A report has to be reviewed for accuracy, there’s still time and resources required. It’s not as simple as just blocking every post or user that has a report submitted against them. People abuse report systems all the time.

  • Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I like the way /r/3DPrinting handled ads. Their mods put it like this,

    “It’s okay for a Redditor to have a business and share it. It’s not okay for a business to have a Reddit account and do the same.”

    Basically, does that account contribute to the community outside of their business? If so, I don’t take issue with it.

    • KevonLooney@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 year ago

      “It’s okay for a Redditor to have a business and share it. It’s not okay for a business to have a Reddit account and do the same.”

      That distinction is so minor it’s useless. I block all people who post dumb shit, regardless of whether they’re a business or not.

      At least there are no “sponsored” posts that can’t be blocked or downvoted. That’s the real problem. If Taco Bell wants to post “dank memes”, let them. Just don’t sticky the post so it survives based on the voting. I block the meme communities anyway.