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Seems like a lot of communities are currently starting to realize how troublesome centralized control can be.
In crypto, trusting centralized exchanges has led to widespread fraud and/or mismanagement and massive financial losses.
In social, trusting a centralized organization to have your best interests in mind doesn't work out either. Your interactions are always controlled and limited by whoever has been given admin powers, and what you thought was YOUR account exists only at THEIR whims.
I think it's worth relaxing a bit on people selling things here in the fediverse, as many others have recently said.
Commerce is a part of life, and I personally want to support and elevate people trying to make a living independently -- whether through their words or art or small business etc.
There is always a line where self-promotion can become annoying. But that mostly comes when you don't engage, don't contribute anything but advertising, only send unsolicited self-promos. Don't do that.
Ben Sandofsky
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