We live under corporate feudalism

  • DarkNightoftheSoul@mander.xyz
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    10 months ago

    Jesus fuck, no wonder they never break even. “the site is expensive it doesnt return its investment we need to add spambots and superads, and also remove gold and completely ignore user needs”

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      10 months ago

      Absolutely insane. Considering how shitty their UI is as well as them not paying their mods. This an incredibly naked theft of labour. This is many times more appalling than the 3rd party app debacle.

      I went on the reddit post for this article. There is a lot of resignation from the people there, not anger like before. Most of them don’t seem to know about the fediverse but I can tell they are truly seeing the death of Reddit and are not sure what to do. As much as I would like to I refuse to make an account to spread the word.

      Anyway, I think this is an indication that we will be seeing further growth here on Lemmy.

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        10 months ago

        Even if they paid the kid only, I dunno, $100 million, how many community mods could have been paid with the remaining $93 million?

        How anyone can believe that it is possible for any single person to do something so meaningful in the same 24 hours we each share every day that they deserve payment so drastically disproportionate, so…disgustingly obscene, really, is beyond me.