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[โ€“] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Those mods volunteered for the community, not for the company and certainly not for spez. However by turning reddit into a profit machine, spez is exploiting the volunteer work they did, and in the process, destroying it. reddit as an IT product is worthless, the communities are the value.

Take Open Streetmap. It's been built by the community for the community. So many contributors who volunteer. Imagine it was a proprietary product and one day they start charging for it. Is that not theft from the people who actually built OSM for free?

[โ€“] [email protected] -3 points 4 months ago

Sure there are some mods on reddit who are doing it for their community.

Let's be real though... the vast majority of mods in any online community are fief lords. They do it because having power over other people feels good.