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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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      1 year ago

      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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      1 year ago

      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 :')

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        1 year ago

        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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          1 year ago

          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.