• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    for free

    I absolutely assure you that Reddit is getting paid for this shit. Spez doesn’t lift a finger without a string attached.

    they’re protecting the interests of people who make more money in a single year than they’ll make in their entire lifetime

    They’re the loyal dogs of the corporate elite because they get the scraps thrown from the table. And when you’ve got a $25T table, those are some very nice scraps.

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      The company is but the moderators are not employees of the company, they’re volunteers

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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        the moderators are not employees of the company

        A great deal of the moderation of popular communities has been captured by affiliated parties. The folks modding /r/marvel and /r/starcraft and /r/conservative aren’t just schmoes who got to those handles first. They’ve been auctioned off to third parties with a vested financial interest in a particularly kind of moderation occurring on those communities.