Seems like a Fediverse ad model is developing. I'm ok with that but there needs to be a general purpose, filterable, marketing/advertising hashtag

I don't mind people posting affiliate and commission links, like to Amazon or wherever using their revenue generating link, with commentary on a product or sale item, but I wished they would use some kind of general-purpose marketing or advertising hashtag so those could be filtered to a list and stay out of my timeline.

Several popular accounts are doing it now, inserting these kinds of posts throughout a stream of posts.

I know ppl need to make money and some of the ad posts have sparked my interest but even @Mastodon is hawking its novelty merchandise without one #IFTAS

This model has worked well with RSS feeds. I really don't mind it but they should be tagged. #MastoAdmin

I think we are going to be tested over this holiday season with this practice and instance owners and moderators need to setup some boundaries other than NO ADS and enforcing a general purpose marketing tag would put the power back in users hands what they see. #Fediverse