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[โ€“] Engywuck@lemm.ee 311 points 11 months ago (26 children)

never give a corporation your labour for free.

People should have known this from the beginning.

[โ€“] sanpo@sopuli.xyz 239 points 11 months ago (5 children)

These volunteers didn't think about it in these terms.
They gave away their work for free to help people learn languages, and for a long time Duolingo seemed like the best platform for that.

Starting your own platform is much more difficult than contributing to an existing one that seems to be operated with some amount of goodwill...

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