Well, a lot of people had a false assumption going in. The idea was that reddit was providing a free service hosting mutually interactive forums. Generally, if you’d run a forum, it was your forum, with all the benefits and drawbacks that entails.
Reddit even pretended that was true for a long time.
People thought they were working for themselves and their community.
Reddit was always too greedy to pay moderators. I can’t believe how many idiots line up to do a multi billion dollar company’s work for free.
Well, a lot of people had a false assumption going in. The idea was that reddit was providing a free service hosting mutually interactive forums. Generally, if you’d run a forum, it was your forum, with all the benefits and drawbacks that entails.
Reddit even pretended that was true for a long time.
People thought they were working for themselves and their community.
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The people at the top made tons of money. Also, back in 2018 they only employed 350 people. They were valued at 1.8 billion at the time.
Maybe if someone’s business can’t stay afloat without free labor from 10k people then you shouldn’t be a business.