catculation@lemmy.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoReddit CEO Defends His Absurdly High Pay While Not Paying Modsfuturism.comexternal-linkmessage-square329fedilinkarrow-up11.37Karrow-down129cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up11.34Karrow-down1external-linkReddit CEO Defends His Absurdly High Pay While Not Paying Modsfuturism.comcatculation@lemmy.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square329fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squaredanc4498@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·8 months agoI don’t understand why the mods continue to work. They literally keep the site alive so this guy can take all the credit and all the compensations.
minus-squareVipsu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·8 months agoBeing able to contribute to a community can feel very rewarding even when you get little to no compensation for it. Many open source contributors know it all too well that their contributions can and will be used by big tech to make even more money.
minus-squarePoliticalAgitator@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoPlenty of them didn’t, so reddit replaced them with scabs.
I don’t understand why the mods continue to work. They literally keep the site alive so this guy can take all the credit and all the compensations.
Being able to contribute to a community can feel very rewarding even when you get little to no compensation for it. Many open source contributors know it all too well that their contributions can and will be used by big tech to make even more money.
Plenty of them didn’t, so reddit replaced them with scabs.