Fuck Spez
And fuck his weird-ass teeth.
I have sympathy for the moderators but not a lot. The should have unionised and demanded a salary a long time ago.
And I’ll add Lemmy/Piefed, actually the whole fediverse, should be run by co-operatives. I’m on Aussie.zone for nothing I add nothing to the instance I’m just a drain on resources. I should pay a yearly fee to be part of the community and should at the very least meta moderate. Like slashdot Uwe to do whereafter a period of time you got to review moderator choices and agree or disagree with the decision. Which based on criteria would the. Allow you to first person moderate.
In short:
- contribute to costs.
- moderate the moderators
- moderate
On one hand, yes. On the other hand, the moment paying for Lemmy becomes commonplace, is the moment financial interests would ruin everything. A donation model makes more sense.
Co-op is just donation model with voting rights. Like a community non-profit organisation
Sure http://piefed.influercercancer.social/ could decide to have paid content but that’s their decision. Any other instance can de-federate from them as easily as they can a Nazi instance
You’d like lemmy.dbzer0.com (lemmy) or anarchist.nexus (piefed) then. Run by the same folks.
Not a co-op, but they’ve put in place systems for instance users to democratically vote on all big administrative changes, any user can start a “radical” vote to oust any mod or admin, and people who have donated to the running costs (even just once) get more vote. Enough that people invested get more weight, but they wouldn’t be able to completely override the will of the rest of the userbase.
Politically anarchist, pro-piracy (head admin and creator is former head mod of reddit’s r/piracy), accepting of AI (mostly pushing for local models, so corps aren’t the only ones with power) but don’t really have issues with anti-corp-AI views as long as you aren’t being a dick to the pro-AI comms/users.
I like that, actually
Im personally a server admin on db0 and tbh I just sorta do it in my free time, I don’t personally think it needs to be monitized. Some funding for server costs is fine but that’s about it.
I have no sympathy for anybody still in the Reddit ecosystem at this point.
I gotta unpack this a little…
Reddit’s main source of revenue is advertising. Other companies pay Reddit to shove ads in your face. You probably buy products from at least some of those companies, and while market forces and consumer perceptions have large influence, operating costs are still a factor in setting those prices. Just like everyone else, Reddit sets the prices of its advertising services based in part on its operating costs, which includes Spez’s salary.
Even if you avoid Reddit, things you buy are more expensive because this fucking toolshed gets paid $193 million a year just to be a sociopathic jackoff with a popular website.
I quit Reddit years ago, but I’m still fucking pissed about this shit and I have every right to be.
Just like auto insurance is more expensive than it should be because they advertise like mad.
Impressive
Obligatory FUCK SPEZ.
Came here to say this FUCK SPEZ
reddit these days is very different. i remember people were buying each other reddit gold back in the day to pay for the site so it wouldn’t have to bend to advertisers and their rules. now reddit is big business
Lemmy.World is far batter than Reddit, I Love Lemmy
No one deserves that much no matter what they’ve done. To squeeze that much out of the company requires taking away from employees, the company as a whole and advertisers.
According to a google search, reddit has 2,233 employees. Meaning his bonus is ~$86.5k per employee.
Whenever I see these giant C suite bonuses announced, it seems hard to imagine why every single staff member doesnt demand a massive raise, and they all strike till they get it. After all, the company has just proven they have the massive piles of extra cash and can afford it.
Because it takes organization to get everyone to strike, especially when a majority of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. This is why corporations are also very anti-union. It’s how that organization happens. It’s how we got a 5-day work week!
Really is the decade of pedophiles making huge paydays, isn’t it?
Always has been. They just can’t hide it now, so they’re out in the open
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
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Username checks out.
greedy little pig-boy
This is what people mean when they say profit is theft
ceos = bad
edit: don’t downvote me; I’m right.
Stunning and brave to say this on Lemmy
yes I am the best person
Finally a nuanced perspective 😮💨
ceos can go to hell
He looks like he is still searching for his ‘precious’
I did my part by spoofing their API and using RIF right up until I got banned for saying nazis deserve to be dead.
Hit too close to home for the admins with that one.
I didn’t get banned, but I remember once teaching people how to fuck with tire valve stems discreetly to fuck with cops and bad parkers and getting a ton of downvotes. That same advice just got a ton of upvotes here. It’s better here.
What’s your method? BB under the screw on cap?
BB or piece of gravel under the cap. Or placing a nail under the tire so it punctures when they pull away.
can of soup for their family under their windshield wiper alongside Engels’ Origin of the Family.
