A number of brand new accounts have popped up shilling their paid for applications.

Is this within the rules? Is the community happy with this? Could mods clarify this in the rules?

Either allowing advertising, or banning it entirely.

my point is - there is a difference between an open source homegrown project that might be useful, vs closed source paid for projects from brand new accounts

some replies are misunderstanding, somehow.

I am against

brand new accounts who:

  1. first post is a brand new project
  2. project is closed source
  3. project will cost money
  4. is asking for free testing
  5. the post is literally an advertisement
  • SuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I know your funning / snarking here but…do you know about YaCy?

    https://github.com/yacy/yacy_search_server

    I only learned about it myself a month or so ago and have been thinking about incorporating it into a project of mine (probably overkill - found a more elegant solution) but YaCy sounds like something you might like.

    Also on this topic: I keep seeing meta-crawlers (Degoog, SearXNG, 4get etc) be promoted but…they aren’t exactly search engines. They’re aggregators that can (and do) get limited. Cool but not “hosting my own search engine” is that was the intent.