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reddit should have never been a company (midwest.social)
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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

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[โ€“] MiddleWeigh 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 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