• misk
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    13 days ago

    Banning all self promotion is usually done not to play favourites. It gets tiring being a gatekeeper so you just remove that variable. Mods should have been shepherding communities to alternative and open platforms themselves though.

    • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgOP
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      13 days ago

      Mods should have been shepherding communities to alternative and open platforms themselves though.

      Indeed. I’m still regularly fighting with a country mod team because even though we offered them to because admins on our Lemmy communities, they still didn’t want to allow a single post about it. Ironically enough, they did the API 2023 strike, but it seems like they were never really interested in an actual alternative.