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What is and isn't an ad is a complicated. Any post talking about something that costs money could be an ad but it could also be a consumer information post. I have some tolerance for mods trying to find a balance and correct wording based on how things shake out.
Rules against insults and harassment is super straight forward and any community that gets the line wrong will quickly be filled with the worst people and the fun people will go to other communities where they got it right.
Any blatant ad spam I’ve seen I’ve banned, I haven’t seen much tech ad spam honestly though. The ad spam I’ve seen and banned was for a “luxury taxi service” and “beauty products.” If I wanted to see nonstop ads I’d just remove my ublock origin and rawdog the internet (which in fact I don’t wanna do)
I'm not necessarily against seeing news about big tech products and events. It's still significant in tech. Could you be more specific about what you're referring to? Maybe I'm not understanding
If you look at his history, he thinks that talking about companies in any context should count as advertisement for that company. He is either stupid or has some personal grievance he can't talk about because it makes him look petty.
This post for example currently on top:
That post is in no way an ad, not even a little bit.
That's not an advertisement, it's basically a PSA.
Maybe because they are a major tech topic? That's not advertising
It's difficult to moderate. Advertising isn't always clear, and while overt advertising is almost always removed and banned there are more subtle forms of it that are indistinguishable from any other post of someone using a product. For that kind of advertising it just has to be user discretion, don't buy products just because you saw them in a Lemmy post.
or policies against brainwashing citizens with propoganda and played out magic
