Personally I think advertisements should be banned.

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If you're asking me, I'm banning all advertisers and karma-fishers on the spot.

Out of sight, out of mind.

Yeet ads to the shadow realm, we didn’t flee traditional corporatized social media just to repeat the same mistakes of monetizing literally everything

I like the way /r/3DPrinting handled ads. Their mods put it like this,

"It's okay for a Redditor to have a business and share it. It's not okay for a business to have a Reddit account and do the same."

Basically, does that account contribute to the community outside of their business? If so, I don't take issue with it.

The nature of spam is that it is parasitic. Spammers don't pay for the resources they use for advertising. They're not sponsoring the site or funding development. Instead, they're stealing from the commons.

It's important that spam be unsuccessful here. Multiple Internet services have been ruined by spam before.

Are these spam accounts? Then they should be banned. I could only see ads in the context of keeping the servers running. I think outside of that it doesn't make sense for this kind of platform. If lemmy.world can run entirely off of donations, then I don't see a reason for ads at all, especially if those ads don't even contribute to keeping the lights on.

Unless they're paying for the instances costs, they can get outta here, and even then, i'm gonna block them.

It's spam. Report it.

I would suggest that you censor the spammer's company name in the screen shot. They want to have more exposure and they don't deserve any.

Honestly if money has to be a part of it I would rather just pay some instance maintainer a monthly/yearly fee.

I don't mind small businesses, creatives etc advertising themselves. When you're self-employed, marketing / promo is incredibly difficult (speaking from personal experience). Like you say, people are free to downvote or block these ad posts. I'd be sad if I made a post promoting a service I offer as a (very!) small business and it got downvoted to oblivion out of reflexive (and understandable) ad hatred.

Once advertisers realise there are eyeballs to be reached here, they're going to start posting. Imo it will be handled best on an instance-by-instance, or even community-by-community basis. I started a community for trance, and as an example I would not be happy if a massive multinational like Threads, or Nestle posted an ad there. I WOULD however, be happy if an event such as Luminosity, ASOT or small local club were to post an ad. There would probably have to be limits if it got out of hand.

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I refuse to watch/read/hear any kind of adds.

One of the reasons why reddit app is trash.

No, advertising is horrible and should not exist on Lemmy. But since it's federated, I wonder how we stop it. The only solution seems to be moderators with quick ban hammers. And what if some instances don't moderate for ads?

My dear, ~~religion is~~ ads are like a penis. It’s a perfectly fine thing to have and take pride in, but when one takes it out and waves it in front of my face we have a problem.

Rules are only as effective as the mechanisms enforcing them - I don’t think anyone wants ads on Lemmy instances, but removal requires moderation tools and staff (volunteer or otherwise) to review everything that’s posted.

I imagine the problem we’ll see is as growth accelerates, post velocity will outpace moderation manpower - short version, you’re always going to have to do some blocking/filtering of your own.

Ugh, fuck ads

I actually think its OK, its just like any other account. So simply block them and all is good. Businesses need platforms too. If you dont like that business advertising to you block them. The difference to the big social media giants is that you can't block them cuz they pay them. Also, a bad ad will have significant less reach in lemmy/masto.

I like it a lot better than the Reddit ads with locked comments

Advertising in General? F that noise.

This is a moderation problem, it should be fixed with moderation.

Every community should have rules and they should be followed.

Start with no OOC advertisements. You have a 3d printing forum and Bamboo is releasing a new printer? Maybe let them make a single post on announcement asking for what people thing and one more when it releases.

If advertisements start to happen too often, new rule of personal endorsements only with bans as a consequence.

We still need moderation tools like timed bans and shadow bans.

I don't concern myself with it.

At the moment, advertising is so rare and low key that I'd have to go out of my way to be bothered by it, and since there's no reason to go out of my way to be bothered by something, I don't.

I assume that as time goes on, there will be more advertising on some instances. I might not know sbout it, since I block any and all ads I can by default, but if I do start seeing them, then I'll just block the instances that run them.

And that's that.