Comment on [META] Are paid for closer source advertising appropriate?
AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 17 hours agoI’m aware, and don’t think that ads to provide free labor for a paid product belong here. That’s been my entire argument the entire time.
I honestly think, that the OP/Dev in question acted in good faith. I do not view his thread as an advertisement to buy his product. IMHO, he solicited beta testers for his product that integrates with the *arr stack, which the vast amount of selfhosters deploy early on in their selfhosting journey. Where else would be a better place than a selfhosting community?
AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 17 hours ago
The question isn’t “did OP act in good faith”.
I do consider it an ad to recruit people to do beta testing for a paid product. I don’t want to see ads in my feed. If I wanted that, I’d go to reddit. Maybe he should post there instead, where ads are overwhelming and users don’t give a shit about being advertised to constantly.
Fair. You do, I don’t.
AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 17 hours ago
I’m very aware that you don’t consider it an ad, but it’s an ad in my eyes. It’s literally a call to action to recruit people to improve their paid application in order to extract money from users in the future.