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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, let’s not get all political on the Marxist Leninist meme community.
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
Why shouldn't we? The guy raises a valid point.
Custoslibera is joking
Doesn't sound like he is.
The ironic "whoa whoa whoa" and the "Marxist Leninist meme community" are give aways that its supposed to be a joke.
Must have missed it. TIL a Lemmy inside joke.
Its far older than lemmy. Idk if I've seen it on Lemmy outside this thread.
There is no inside joke. It's just sarcasm.
An /s would have been in order.
Or you could think?
Even then, doing charity work while forcing your wife to earn all the money and do all the chores around the house is questionable
No arguing there, the specific situation is shit either way
Ah yes, the best kind of charity work.
Moderating r/funny
Profiting?
Yes. When volunteers work for free to filter the content that reddit owns, reddit’s product becomes more valuable.
Burn
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.
Nonogram sounds like a euphemism lol
"Dude, stop touching your nonogram at work."
Exactly. But the moderators get a taste of that juice and suck that reddit nectar.
In retrospect that reminds me of the big controversy with Minecraft back in the day when Mojang just casually revealed they owned bukkit.
Thanks for sending me down another Internet history rabbithole :')
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.