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fedi meta, probably just ignore this

Darius Kazemi

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You can sell things on the fediverse if you want. I buy stuff I learn about here all the time, usually directly from creators.

If you sell things in a way that is annoying to the users of this server, as an admin it's my duty to block you on behalf of the users on this server. If your server is full of people selling things in a way that is annoying, I'll block the whole server on behalf of mine.

Jesse Vincent

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@darius What qualifies as "annoying" in your book? I know some folks who are allergic to any kind of self-promotion in their social spaces. I don't get it, but some folks are like that. But I'd (naively) expect that "just don't follow those accounts" ought to mostly cover it. Without widely-used reflectors, someone pulling a Canter and Siegel here seems...improbable.

Ms. Penny 🐝 Oaken

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@darius IANAL IANYL ATINLA; the approach some friends decided upon for their policy was “[X] is not intended to be a marketplace; Certain transactions as prohibited by applicable US & [local] law are forbidden & will result in account permanent suspension”.

That way they could claim to be agnostic of any sales happening while avoiding liability under various US laws covering narcotics, alcohol, tobacco, firearms, finance instruments, etc

Darius Kazemi

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Adding this from something I wrote in a reply elsewhere:

We are fine with self promotion here on Friend Camp. There are a lot of indie artists here who promote their wares to live. Our tolerance for promotion is actually very high, especially *self* promotion!

"Annoying" is whatever the 60 of us agree is annoying. That's what's nice about a small server: we can get reasonable consensus on a case by case basis without having to codify everything.