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

  •  catloaf   ( @catloaf@lemm.ee ) 
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    201 month ago

    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.

  •  hendrik   ( @hendrik@palaver.p3x.de ) 
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    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.

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        Heheh, yeah. Especially since that happened in a community which is specifically about the broader Fediverse. You’d think people there know their stuff about… well, the broader Fediverse.

        But I also get the American perspective a lot here. It is how it is. Many people don’t factor in that things work differently around the world. They take the US perspective for granted. I guess it’s not really obvious unless you’ve seen other parts of the world and pay attention that this platform also connects you to a bunch of Germans… That means I sometimes won’t get what someone is talking about. But on the other hand I get to learn a lot about America…

    •  hendrik   ( @hendrik@palaver.p3x.de ) 
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      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.

  •  zeezee   ( @zeezee@slrpnk.net ) 
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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.