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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'.
You saying a for profit business cannot have volunteers because it’s akin to labor without pay? That’s anti capitalist and pro workers.
Whoa whoa whoa Im just here for the Reddit 2.0 fuck all this commie shit I don't care if it was here first
EDIT: /s since the thing I replied to got taken seriously lol
The ironic "whoa whoa whoa" and the "Marxist Leninist meme community" are give aways that its supposed to be a joke.
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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
Yes. When volunteers work for free to filter the content that reddit owns, reddit’s product becomes more valuable.
Yeah, spez said they are largely unprofitable! Meanwhile he's worth millions. Yep, those poor saps over there are broke.
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.
In retrospect that reminds me of the big controversy with Minecraft back in the day when Mojang just casually revealed they owned bukkit.
They didn't own bukkit, they took it over and plucked it apart because it was genuinely more popular than their own hosting software.
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.
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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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.
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.
to be fair he finally found a real job (see the edit): https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueOffMyChest/comments/r2w9qb/my_husband_is_the_moderator_for_a_few_different/
"Edit: To all the profile-lurkers, my husband is no longer a moderator, and has a (real) job now FYI"
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?
Okay, the hypersensitivity and defensiveness make it even funnier.
YOU CANNOT SAY THOSE WORDS BECAUSE THEY WERE USED IN A JOKE TEN YEARS AGO.
(Why doesn’t anyone take me seriouslyyyyy?!? Come on, guys! I’m a REDDIT MOD! I should be treated with RESPECT!)
I'm using the mobile app Jeroba and I see a robot face icon next to your username
UPDATE: it is gone now
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Don't forget banning people for talking back against fascists and using nazi as a pejorative.
oops did i make a mess 😏? clean it up jannie 😎 it’s your job to clean up my mess 😎
clean up the mess i made here 🤣🤣🤣
CLEAN IT UP 🧹 🧹 🧼 clean it all up yes jannie clean it up 🧹 you’re a jannie it’s your job to clean it up 🧼 😂
FOR $0.00 💵 of course. you clean it up for $0.00. For free 💰and without compensation 🧹 🧹 🧹
clean up my mess jannie 😎
There's being a mod on many levels. From a mod on 4chan to a mod in facebook groups. Being a reddit mod these days is like naming your herpes and showing coworkers "pictures of the kids"
stammering under the pressure Post spez reddit and the humanitarian... then..... i just can't. Holy jesus fucks on wednesdays this shit screams "reddit mod" which is a whole new level of stupid. Seriously guy? You think you're that important?
And then a reddit mod steps in. And bigorty... bans..... society???? post spez reddit mod activate. Mother fucker.
And there's the awards......
That poor fucking Snoo.
Seeing the guys alot of women choose to be with sometimes makes me proud to be single lmao.
