Jack said twitter should have never been a company but thats even more true for reddit who’s whole businesses model is based on unpaid volunteers lemmy is what reddit should have always been community owned and community supported and open source

  • MiddleWeigh@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yes. It feels weird, convoluted, and ripe for corruption when human interaction is monetized. It’s just unnatural imo.

    Now I get that there is infrastructure that needs to he handled on their end, but we seem to be doing fine. I think alot of people here appreciate the effort, and find that being apart of something feels good and worth it enough to keep it going on donation, fund drive style, community events based funding.

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      1 year ago

      It helps that the cost per user isn’t that high you for small and medium sized the instance owner can generally just pay out of pocket and the larger instances can just ask for a dollar a user and have more than enough money to pay for there instance

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    1 year ago

    Honestly mastodon works better than I expected with instances but Reddit was really the perfect candidate for the fediverse. You subscribe to communities which are independently managed and you avoid any contact with communities that seems harmful to you. Don’t care where the community is hosted, you just want the content

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      1 year ago

      Investors don’t care about the company they just want constantly growing return on there investments which ultimately ends with the company doing increasingly amti consumer practices