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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.
Custoslibera is joking
Doesn't sound like he is.
The ironic "whoa whoa whoa" and the "Marxist Leninist meme community" are give aways that its supposed to be a joke.
Must have missed it. TIL a Lemmy inside joke.
Its far older than lemmy. Idk if I've seen it on Lemmy outside this thread.
There is no inside joke. It's just sarcasm.
An /s would have been in order.
Or you could think?