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The Apollo dev banned and removed all my comments suggesting Lemmy as an alternative to reddit.
(lemmy.ml)
I usually don't get too salty about these things, but that seemed uncalled for, especially since I'm on their side.
Plenty of other comments mentioned Voat and Lemmy ... weird https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_call_with_reddit_to_discuss_pricing_bad/jmd4wk8/
Maybe the difference is the fact that Dessalines is directly involved in the Lemmy project. Maybe that makes it self promotion in the Apollo dev's eyes? ๐คท
I don't understand people's issue with self-promotion. If it's unhelpful, i.e. spam? Sure, nobody wants to try something completely irrelevant or broken. That's because it's irrelevant or broken.
If you've put a lot of work into something, especially for free, which solves someone's problem; I think you have every right to shout it from the roof tops?
It's not like anyone was spamming about Lemmy before people had an issue with Reddit. I had to go hunting to find it months ago.
The problem when you allow this is that sooner or later the sub is only self promotion and you can't find anything relevant anymore.
Yeah, maybe it's difficult to enforce with nuance and not have people get angry about it.
I have found some great projects through self-promotion and I haven't had to moderate it so I might have a soft spot for it.
That would be a little like the staff on the sinking Titanic reminding passengers not to mention other cruise lines :p
Self-promotion rules are really weird for open-source projects too. Its like we're telling people about a pizza recipe that we created and are sharing freely... we're not selling anything or trying to profit off people.
I appreciate you very much. thanks for all your Efforts
I thought Voat was mostly defunct now.
It is. Shut down in 2020.
Voat is a sad story. The site itself was very good. When Reddit purged their worst subs and users, they all went to Voat. Predictably it became extremely toxic.