It’s fine to do that kind of work for free for the sake of creating and maintaining a nice community for something you enjoy. It’s like charity work.
The problem is that there’s a big company that’s profiting massively from this ‘charity work’.
You saying a for profit business cannot have volunteers because it’s akin to labor without pay? That’s anti capitalist and pro workers.
Whoa whoa whoa, let’s not get all political on the Marxist Leninist meme community.
Whoa whoa whoa Im just here for the Reddit 2.0 fuck all this commie shit I don’t care if it was here first
EDIT: /s since the thing I replied to got taken seriously lol
Why shouldn’t we? The guy raises a valid point.
Even then, doing charity work while forcing your wife to earn all the money and do all the chores around the house is questionable
No arguing there, the specific situation is shit either way
Ah yes, the best kind of charity work.
Moderating r/funny
At the same time, this is realistically the only way to gain/maintain community for really niche topics. Unfortunately, lemmy is not a thriving place for things like nonograms, low-poly artwork, the artist C418, or Pokemon GO research/infographics.
Nonogram sounds like a euphemism lol
“Dude, stop touching your nonogram at work.”
Exactly. But the moderators get a taste of that juice and suck that reddit nectar.
In retrospect that reminds me of the big controversy with Minecraft back in the day when Mojang just casually revealed they owned bukkit.
Thanks for sending me down another Internet history rabbithole :')
They didn’t own bukkit, they took it over and plucked it apart because it was genuinely more popular than their own hosting software.
When I said “they owned bukkit” I didn’t mean they founded it, just that they were at the time of the controversy the owners of bukkit. Them taking it over isn’t mutually exclusive with owning it.
Also the controversy I was referring to was back in the peak of bukkit’s use, and they had owned it for some time before that peak. I’d wager the controversy was a much larger component of the fall of bukkit than them “plucking it apart” considering it was a product they owned and wholly benefited from it being the defacto standard at the time.
Profiting?
Yes. When volunteers work for free to filter the content that reddit owns, reddit’s product becomes more valuable.
Reddit makes something like a dollar fifty per user, per year. They’re not actually making a huge amount of money off their user base.
Remember me to an old meme
Countless lives saved.
Moderating a subreddit is a choice, not a personal characteristic. Attempting to dilute the meaning of the word by pretending that criticism of moderators is “bigotry” is itself abusive reactionary rhetoric.
I used to moderate several subs with over 2M subscribers and while being a Digital Janitor can take a lot of time and effort at the end of the day its just volunteer labor and with Reddit in particular it’s volunteer labor to help a commercial entity.
Society would be better off if these kinds of mods would use the time to volunteer at a soup kitchen or something.
If it’s a community you’re passionate about, I don’t see the issue myself.
Seems like many are doing it for the sake of modding though
to be fair he finally found a real job (see the edit): https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueOffMyChest/comments/r2w9qb/my_husband_is_the_moderator_for_a_few_different/
“Edit: To all the profile-lurkers, my husband is no longer a moderator, and has a (real) job now FYI”
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Working for free for a large corporation is just sad. What’s even weirder is that this person acknowledges that it is basically a job, but doesn’t mind not getting paid for it. I think most people that spend ridiculous amounts of time working for a big corporation for free don’t have the understanding that it is basically a job.
I hope he seeks help of some kind.
I hear FIFA is accepting volunteers
Agreed, that type of person seems to me like someone who associates their job with their identity. Doesn’t help that our identities are almost exclusively linked with our occupation but anyway or that Reddit takes advantage of people who do.
Only do moderation in moderation.
Lemmy chads actually doing something(self hosting) while reddit mods wank for the 15th time to childs in a day while banning a few people.
Don’t forget banning people for talking back against fascists and using nazi as a pejorative.
Someone complaining about Reddit and Reddit mods on Reddit. That’ll show ‘em.
I’m already seeing lemmy mods starting to act exactly like reddit mods so it’s not that ill-fitting.
We shouldn’t be surprised that the reddit-like website made as an alternative to reddit becomes more like reddit as more redditors leave reddit for reddit alternatives.
did i say reddit enough yet? reddit.
Mods acting like mods everywhere else in response to users acting like users everywhere else.
No, we shouldn’t be surprised when we think we reinvented the wheel only to act surprised that it’s still round and rolls.
I do like that moderation log feature on at least one lemmy instance. It allows you to see what the mods are doing and helps avoid communities with bad moderators. Or at least it would if you could search by community.
If you go to the community itself first you can then go to the modlog for just that community. But it would be easier if that filtering was already in the main instance modlog. I think the frontpage modlog even gives some logs from other federated instances but I might have hallucinated that.
No need to block out the username, we know it’s powermod.
Why pay human moderators when hydrogen atoms do it naturally and for free?
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This is hilarious. It’s been a while since I laughed like that. Thanks.
Seeing the guys alot of women choose to be with sometimes makes me proud to be single lmao.
Oh lawdy.
