- cross-posted to:
- [email protected]
- cross-posted to:
- [email protected]
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
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Question from those who would like to see other Fediverse content on Lemmy - anyone know how to?
As in I’d much rather read actual mastodon/bluesky posts than screenshots of mastodon/bluesky posts uploaded to Lemmy.
Lemmy does not support personal microblogging. If you want to have both in the same interface you need to sign up on a Mbin or Friendica instance.
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.
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.
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.
That’s just how Mastodon tags work, they get turned into HTML
<a>tag with thehrefpointing to the local instance’s view of that tag. Lemmy then turns that HTML into markdown, hence all the links to poster’s instance.Sure, but the end result is the same - i.e., it looks spammy even if unintended.
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
It wasn’t a Lemmy post originally. It’s a post from mastodon that - thanks to actvitypub - has reached Lemmy.
So basically exactly what the fediverse was designed to do .
It’s intention was to test interoperability and reach between Mastodon and other fediverse implementations.
Asking for commercialisation strategies was definitely done tongue in cheek, because the mod suggested it was commercial in a rude manner.
Pretty sure they were being facetious with that comment.
I can see no evidence to suggest it was anything other than sincere.
Edit: Legitimately, can someone point out what part of that was supposed to be anything but an honest discussion? I’m seeing downvotes, but no rebuttals.
The mod accused OP about commercialising it in the first comment by mentioning de advertisers.
OP then asked how would that post be something commercial even, and to please explain because they cant even fanthom how their post could be interpreted as something oriented to advertisers.
Mod gets pissed and locks the thread.
OP was never trying to commercialize the post. This is my interpretation.
First off, the first comment is only the first comment we can see. There are four comments worth of context we have not been provided with.
Second, he wasn’t asking how it was commercial, he was asking how he could commercialise it. He was trying to spread the post as much as possible, and has an analytics tool to track it. Puts me in mind of market research.
Third, that still doesn’t explain how it’s facetious. What he said about being commercial was said in the same tone as the things that were self-evident. Just claiming it’s facetious is like saying “haha, jk.” Why should I believe it wasn’t serious?
This came across, to me at least, like a genuine attempt to test the advertising reach of the fediverse. He failed to convince the mod otherwise, and the mod was right to shut that down.
I think we should break Susaga’s favorite lamps just to be sure.
Whoa, what does any of this have to do with my lamps?!
You know what you did.
Was it indeed commercial?
Was it indeed commercial?
heise.de is a commercial platform and that post was made by heise’s head writer.
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.
I was on the go so didn’t have time to read in details.
@[email protected] , seems like the consensus here is that the commercial aspect was a poorly communicated joke, would you like to revisit this decision?
Not entirely true - coming from a LW account, it did not make it to Beehaw (although this post did, coming from slrpnk.net and going to lemmy.dbzer0.com).
