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@FediTips any tips advising newish people against hashtag stuffing, spam or overt advertising?

@django

Obviously spamming a bad idea, but specific rules about what exactly is spam would depend on the server.

For example some servers forbid any kind of self-promotion, even for indie artists trying to make a living by selling art. Other servers would be fine with this as long as they're not spamming other people's threads with it or using irrelevant tags etc.

@FediTips yeah this is a case that came up recently.

Indie artists advertising into an unrelated hashtag!

@django

It's kind of difficult to comment without seeing the specific example in question?