This post was getting attention.

Then this exchange by the mod

I tried to post and well well well, post was locked. https://lemmy.world/modlog

  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Idiots. I mean it’s true, this is kind of advertising… But for the Fediverse! And we kind of like the Fediverse here. Especially in the community called “Fediverse”…

    I can see how you’d make this mistake though. If your horizon is just Lemmy and you don’t know anything about the broader ecosystem we’re in, this post might look a bit off.

  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Commercial spam seems unlikely, but it’s certainly low quality content. We already know federation works, this is the equivalent of the “this is Bob, copy and paste Bob to all your friends’ profiles” comment from the 2000s.

    • Unruffled [they/them]@lemmy.dbzer0.comMEnglish
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      2 months ago

      All the links are directed to social.heise.de, so it’s definitely got spammy characteristics imo, even if it’s not commercial spam. While awareness raising about federation functionality is probably fine, it’s also presumably meant to direct traffic to that specific instance, which is arguably a form of advertising.

      • flamingos-cant@feddit.ukEnglish
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        2 months ago

        That’s just how Mastodon tags work, they get turned into HTML <a> tag with the href pointing to the local instance’s view of that tag. Lemmy then turns that HTML into markdown, hence all the links to poster’s instance.

    • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I don’t think so. I mean you can read the post in the screenshot yourself. It doesn’t link to anything (except the image) and doesn’t promote anything except the Fediverse. The hashtags are a bit excessive for Lemmy standards. And heise is a German computer magazine publishing company. So the author writes articles for a living. But I believe they said in the comments, the post was done in their own time. And I don’t think anyone except the moderator took offense… The post got like 300 upvotes.

  • Susaga@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Why are there so many hashtags on a lemmy post? It’s definitely spam, and you asking how to commercialise it makes it commercial spam, so it all checks out.

    YDI