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Huffman has said, "We are not in the business of giving that [Reddit's content] away for free." That stance makes sense. But it also ignores the reality that all of Reddit's content has been given to it for free by its millions of users. Further, it leaves aside the fact that the content has been orchestrated by its thousands of volunteer moderators.

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[–] [email protected] 103 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"There is nothing special about Reddit except its community and the content the community created."

This is the fundamental truth that rules all others.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago

It used to just be a regular forum for people to post and discuss. It was special because of the upvote/downvote karma system. The user count got money hungry people's attention, it went corporate and it became a place to take in revenue.

Now people have learned from it, and used it to create their own forums based on the structure of Reddit.

The thing that made Reddit special was it was everything you wanted all in one place, instead of having multiple forums on multiple different websites for multiple different interests, it was all on Reddit.

Now we have the fediverse, it's multiple different websites, that follow the same principles, and they all work harmoniously with one another.

Just like nature finds a way, genuine humanity finds way too, even on the internet.