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    1 year ago

    It’s fine to do that kind of work for free for the sake of creating and maintaining a nice community for something you enjoy. It’s like charity work.

    The problem is that there’s a big company that’s profiting massively from this ‘charity work’.

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      You saying a for profit business cannot have volunteers because it’s akin to labor without pay? That’s anti capitalist and pro workers.

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      Even then, doing charity work while forcing your wife to earn all the money and do all the chores around the house is questionable

    • 🔍🦘🛎@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      At the same time, this is realistically the only way to gain/maintain community for really niche topics. Unfortunately, lemmy is not a thriving place for things like nonograms, low-poly artwork, the artist C418, or Pokemon GO research/infographics.

    • MufinMcFlufin@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      In retrospect that reminds me of the big controversy with Minecraft back in the day when Mojang just casually revealed they owned bukkit.

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        1 year ago

        Thanks for sending me down another Internet history rabbithole :')

      • Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml
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        They didn’t own bukkit, they took it over and plucked it apart because it was genuinely more popular than their own hosting software.

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          When I said “they owned bukkit” I didn’t mean they founded it, just that they were at the time of the controversy the owners of bukkit. Them taking it over isn’t mutually exclusive with owning it.

          Also the controversy I was referring to was back in the peak of bukkit’s use, and they had owned it for some time before that peak. I’d wager the controversy was a much larger component of the fall of bukkit than them “plucking it apart” considering it was a product they owned and wholly benefited from it being the defacto standard at the time.

    • Ilovethebomb@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Reddit makes something like a dollar fifty per user, per year. They’re not actually making a huge amount of money off their user base.

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    1 year ago

    Moderating a subreddit is a choice, not a personal characteristic. Attempting to dilute the meaning of the word by pretending that criticism of moderators is “bigotry” is itself abusive reactionary rhetoric.

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    Working for free for a large corporation is just sad. What’s even weirder is that this person acknowledges that it is basically a job, but doesn’t mind not getting paid for it. I think most people that spend ridiculous amounts of time working for a big corporation for free don’t have the understanding that it is basically a job.

    I hope he seeks help of some kind.

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      Agreed, that type of person seems to me like someone who associates their job with their identity. Doesn’t help that our identities are almost exclusively linked with our occupation but anyway or that Reddit takes advantage of people who do.

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    I used to moderate several subs with over 2M subscribers and while being a Digital Janitor can take a lot of time and effort at the end of the day its just volunteer labor and with Reddit in particular it’s volunteer labor to help a commercial entity.

    Society would be better off if these kinds of mods would use the time to volunteer at a soup kitchen or something.

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    The mod is a lazy POS. He will continue to contribute nothing to the household for as long as it’s tolerated. I hope he sees that post. Maybe that was the intent all along.

    Also, I can see how “fake job” could be taken as rude, but why is it bannable to say mods “do it for free”? To me, that just seems like a statement of fact. They are unpaid volunteers, after all. Am I missing something?

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    Lemmy chads actually doing something(self hosting) while reddit mods wank for the 15th time to childs in a day while banning a few people.

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      1 year ago

      Don’t forget banning people for talking back against fascists and using nazi as a pejorative.

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      I’m already seeing lemmy mods starting to act exactly like reddit mods so it’s not that ill-fitting.

      We shouldn’t be surprised that the reddit-like website made as an alternative to reddit becomes more like reddit as more redditors leave reddit for reddit alternatives.

      did i say reddit enough yet? reddit.

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        Mods acting like mods everywhere else in response to users acting like users everywhere else.

        No, we shouldn’t be surprised when we think we reinvented the wheel only to act surprised that it’s still round and rolls.

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        I do like that moderation log feature on at least one lemmy instance. It allows you to see what the mods are doing and helps avoid communities with bad moderators. Or at least it would if you could search by community.

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          If you go to the community itself first you can then go to the modlog for just that community. But it would be easier if that filtering was already in the main instance modlog. I think the frontpage modlog even gives some logs from other federated instances but I might have hallucinated that.

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