Hrmmm....
People act like self promotion is almost braggadocious and it bewilders me... The problem is spammers and promo shills that spam for commercial entities and brands under the cover of acting as if they are honest human beings. The enemy is not the individual tring to promote their mixtape, legal advice, or knitted hats.
Social media and sites like Reddit have shut out honest individual self promoters based on moderator arrogance that is very self destructive, anti-competitive, and also very hostile to everyone's ability to be an independent entrepreneur. They shut out small promoters because it leaves room for larger companies to shill all day while using celebrities, manufactured celebrities, and even well known personalities that are already very wealthy. I think it's disgusting how marketing works now, charging the smallest creators the same price as wealthy {fully staffed} big companies for online ads even before small entities are properly profitable is deeply unethical. It creates a business economy in which only the wealthy thrive. As the cost of living rises. None of us normals are safe from this unfair financial manipulation. And the threat to devaluation of our ability to create and run a successful business of our own/
If that attitude of banning self promotion prevails, no one will be upwardly mobile, because as social media is already throttling everyone for money. Eventually if this attitude prevails, there will be no way to let anyone know about your business or skills, and we'll all be at the mercy of only working for large corporations because business promotional costs will be prohibitive to success.
I have noticed data working across even competing social sites, which worries me greatly. I think there is already a social score at plat for most of us even when we aren't signed up for web apps... Our phones are the likely underhanded snitch//