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reddit should have never been a company (midwest.social)
submitted 1 year ago by Thedogspaw@midwest.social to c/reddit@lemmy.ml
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Jack said twitter should have never been a company but thats even more true for reddit who's whole businesses model is based on unpaid volunteers lemmy is what reddit should have always been community owned and community supported and open source

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[โ€“] darkfiremp3@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I figure the VC money pushed them to find ways to grow and make money at all cost

[โ€“] Thedogspaw@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

Investors don't care about the company they just want constantly growing return on there investments which ultimately ends with the company doing increasingly amti consumer practices