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
  • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    4 days ago

    This is the selfhosted community. Not the Free, Open Source community.

    I think you can infer the rules from the name here. The stuff you post must be related to software you can host on your own hardware. It need not be free, nor open source.

    Now your point about spam from brand new accounts that are literally just ads on the other hand is valid.

  • warmaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    4 days ago

    I think they should be allowed. However, I wouldn’t even date to touch them with a stick from afar in VR.

    Plex was the last proprietary thing I ever selfhosted and it’s been a perfect reminder.

  • Caveman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 days ago

    Technically Plex is a paid closed source but self hosted thingy. I think the line is a bit blurry on this since I wouldn’t mind people posting about Plex even though I use Jellyfin. However, advertising it would be a nono.

  • EarMaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    4 days ago

    As long as it’s self-hosted I don’t have a problem with it. Plex is maybe a good example for this. I wouldn’t ban Plex questions as long as it isn’t just a weekly advertising post. Up- and down voting can handle the rest.

  • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    4 days ago

    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?