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Paul Chambers

A major Fediverse software development is marketing its toys, novelties and gifts without using an appropriate general-purpose advertising/marketing hashtag so we that filter out marketing are forced to deal with it in our timelines.

The other choice is to mute or block this major software developer and miss out on important security and other upgrade notices to its software.

Be an example that it is ok to market on the Fediverse responsibly, use a general purpose AD or marketing hashtag!

@paul call them out so I can be sure to block the account or domain on my server.

@paul don't we have an AI tag now? Couldn't we just add another tag for unpaid and paid advertising?

@paul it’s not the Plushtodon updates, is it?

@tiamat271 Since you figured out what curdled my oats this morning, I was just generally putting it out there because it's not just them in in major server or development roles that do this, yeah.😂

I hope the stan accounts don't come for me now. If they do, we'll blame you. lol🤭

It's not good enough to use a product tag, then we have to filter out each product that is being marketed as it pops up, but a general marketing or advertising hashtag would set a good example.

@paul I am not as connected to so many servers as you, so I’ve only seen the direct posts from Eugen about plushtodon (but I follow him and am also trying to get the mastodon plush when it becomes available!). I can see how it would be a pain coming from all different places with no way to block them. Awhile ago I thought it saw a merchtodon hashtag…seems like it would be helpful if people could use some sort of universal tag so the posts could be filtered.

@paul P.S. - I edited my post to remove the #, so hopefully that will make my post less findable. I’m sorry if I have I exposed you to the stan accounts!