Promotion of apps you created is considered an ad, therefore it’s not allowed in this community. Rule 3 has been clarified with 3.1 to specify this. We will not remove existing posts but will do so for future posts.
However, we will start a monthly self promo threads starting August, and this will be only place where self promo is allowed. This thread will be for apps that are created by people in the community, so ads for other apps are still not allowed.
EDIT: Based on feedback, the community has found it helpful to discover new Lemmy apps for alternatives. Therefore, we will allow ONE post for a new Lemmy app, provided that they link to their own community for future posts. We will not allow additional posts/updates on the specific apps.
I think it has been very useful with promotion of the various Lemmy apps coming out for iOS / macOS and don’t mind them at all. Maybe they could be allowed for a time still so new apps in the space still get a fair chance to grow and become alternatives?
We have a pinned post that I try to keep up-to-date for iOS apps (at least active ones with TestFlight/AppStore links). It was created because there were many posts at the time about apps so we wanted a place to consolidate. And there’s already a community [email protected] to discover new apps. I think these are sufficient to find other Lemmy apps.
However, I’ll discuss this again with the mod team and see if we want to be more lenient about new Lemmy apps.