The Architecture of Withholding Greed extends far beyond material hunger, it’s a fracture in how we relate. When we clutch control instead of sharing what might
22 hour old account, the website is the same name as the account (Joseph is only the display name). And some vague ad for the website as the profile body.
I didn’t say anything about self promotion because I don’t usually have issues with that.
This isn’t self promotion. As I said, this is pure advertisement.
Self promotion would be someone who is or has been engaging with the community or the wider fediverse at all that does something like “Hey, I did some research on this topic and there’s some things I think people should know about it so I wrote a blog post. Let me know what you think!”
This also isn’t just out in the open. Why would this person set a different display name on their account unless they wanted to add a small delay in people catching onto this? Instead of a direct “this is the site I run”, their profile has some weird promotional wank about the site and a link. It’s not direct and up front.
Just… any attempt at bare minimum effort to indicate that this person had any intention of actually engaging with the community instead of dropping a link and running would have made this more palatable.
I am new and excited to be here. Unlike almost every article posted, mine does not include ads in the article, nor does the website have any ads. There is no product or service sold directly or indirectly
22 hour old account, the website is the same name as the account (Joseph is only the display name). And some vague ad for the website as the profile body.
And this is the only post so far.
Pure advertising. Hooray.
And so what? To be honest, what’s wrong with self promotion?
But is the article interesting? Maybe this is the important thing to consider and comment about.
At least if they self promote they do it in the open and not hiding hypocritically
I didn’t say anything about self promotion because I don’t usually have issues with that.
This isn’t self promotion. As I said, this is pure advertisement.
Self promotion would be someone who is or has been engaging with the community or the wider fediverse at all that does something like “Hey, I did some research on this topic and there’s some things I think people should know about it so I wrote a blog post. Let me know what you think!”
This also isn’t just out in the open. Why would this person set a different display name on their account unless they wanted to add a small delay in people catching onto this? Instead of a direct “this is the site I run”, their profile has some weird promotional wank about the site and a link. It’s not direct and up front.
Just… any attempt at bare minimum effort to indicate that this person had any intention of actually engaging with the community instead of dropping a link and running would have made this more palatable.
I am new and excited to be here. Unlike almost every article posted, mine does not include ads in the article, nor does the website have any ads. There is no product or service sold directly or indirectly