I usually don’t get too salty about these things, but that seemed uncalled for, especially since I’m on their side.

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    well, I saw your comment and made it here, so at least one happy customer was served.

    Kind of short-sighted by Christian to do this. He could put up an instance, make an Apollo update (not trivial) and migrate a bunch of users onto Lemmy. Getting a decent percentage of Apollo users over here would be good for a producer of a popular app based client. I’d wager operating his own instance would end up being cheaper than Reddit’s API fees. He could even benefit from donations to keep his servers running.

    Everybody wins in this hypothetical, magical, free business idea.

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      Sweet, glad to have you.

      I don’t mind the ban too much as I don’t use reddit often, but it’s probably indicative that the developer plans to stay with reddit. Our door is always open to him if he changes his mind tho.

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    I mean, yeah. You broke the self-promotion rule. It’s a kind of a dumb rule IMO. “You’re allowed to promote things, but just not your things.”. Someone other than you promoting Lemmy wouldn’t be breaking the rules.

    So, there’s no real mystery here.

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    You’re directly involved in the project according to the comments so a ban for self promo is justified here

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      This is true, but I would have thought that removing the comments with a warning would have sufficed. A ban seems excessive.

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        Self-Promos tend to be insta-ban due to how spammed and intrusive they used to be and still are. It’s one of those “everyone gets the same treatment” situations.

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    Banning someone for “self promoting” an open source, decentralised, democratised alternative? What a weird hill for them to die on.

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    I’m all for promoting lemmy but I have to say I don’t see an issue here. Self-promotion is a well recognised no no.

    Fingers crossed Christian does migrate Apollo to lemmy some day but he’s probably suffering from whiplash - this has all happened very quickly. I expect he needs a break.

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    Hmm… That does not bode well for my hopes that Apollo would support Lemmy in the future. It could have been one of his mods and not the dev himself, though.

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    A ban for first offense seems excessive, but to be fair, this whole situation must be quite stressful for them and being asked by hundreds of users for support of X or Y alternative seems like it would quickly become annoying.

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      I read some comments by them today. They are really trying not to burn bridges with reddit in fear that talks over pricing will cease. I could see how removing comments would make sense to them in that light.

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        honestly reddit has been in decline for years, I really hope the fediverse continues to expand that’s the only way to put a stop to enshittification

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          I agree. But like Twitter alternatives, two things are required. Products that that have feature parity and quick mass adoption.

          I have seen it happen twice to large sites. MySpace to Facebook. That happened fast. Then I saw digg to Reddit.

          Both those cases Facebook and Reddit respectively had feature parity(ones that mattered) if not more features. But as a heavy digg user, I still struggled with Reddit.

          Mastodon has struggled to get wide adoption and people are still using Twitter so I am not sure it will ever happen.

          I think if Lemmy wants to succeed and take market share from Reddit, the mobile apps need to greatly improve in the next month. I am not shitting on any of the current apps but they aren’t remotely close to having parity with RIF or Apollo. And that makes sense as those apps are really mature.

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      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? 🤷

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        That would be a little like the staff on the sinking Titanic reminding passengers not to mention other cruise lines :p

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          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.