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[–] De_Narm@lemmy.world 85 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That honestly says way more about mods than it does about Reddit. Of course you're not gonna pay for a task people are lining up to do for free, no matter how much they themselves make.

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 45 points 9 months ago (1 children)

People do it for free on Lemmy, too. Reddit used to be much more moderator-friendly. I think a lot of remaining mods are just going on muscle memory at this point.

[–] De_Narm@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes, they do. And while I don't get it on here either, at least they don't line the pockets of some shitty company. Some moderation is necessary, and I guess I should be happy about other people doing it for free here.

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 39 points 9 months ago (2 children)

People do it because they care. I ran /r/StarTrek for over a decade because I wanted a specific type of community to exist that didn't elsewhere, and reddit made it easy.

Of course, reddit eventually screwed me (and all of us) with their greed and there was no way to move what we'd built. If a nonprofit reddit-like site existed back then I would hopefully have had the foresight to use it instead.

[–] neatchee@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Oh hey, I recognize you. Genuinely and truly, thank you for your years of service. I run a mastodon community these days for the same reasons, and I can only imagine how frustrating and eventually heartbreaking it must have been for long-time reddit mods to slowly get screwed out of the homes they'd built for themselves and others.

[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Those mods volunteered for the community, not for the company and certainly not for spez. However by turning reddit into a profit machine, spez is exploiting the volunteer work they did, and in the process, destroying it. reddit as an IT product is worthless, the communities are the value.

Take Open Streetmap. It's been built by the community for the community. So many contributors who volunteer. Imagine it was a proprietary product and one day they start charging for it. Is that not theft from the people who actually built OSM for free?

Sure there are some mods on reddit who are doing it for their community.

Let's be real though... the vast majority of mods in any online community are fief lords. They do it because having power over other people feels good.