I agree with OP. They’re basically asking that you should be allowed to promote open source, freely available solutions to problems people might have.

It’s a lot different from an ad since it’s ultimately well intentioned. Of course there might be caveats like not actually being open source or doing a rugpull im the future. But, those can be handled.

I’m so tired of people never even having heard of lichess, or linux, or other foss tools because the marketing for windows and chess commis so aggressive. Most people on lemmy may not realize this, since I suspect we have a uniquely high population of adblock users, on a social media platform with no ads. But regular users, even ones who may be using github, sort of live with in that bubble, and only know about xyz tool because they saw an ad or youtube recommended it to them or whatever.

edit: though I do think they were kinda pushy in the issue linked after users told them no in criticized it for being too new. But ultimately, without that issue people wouldn’t even know about their project.