• @5BC2E7
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    -67 months ago

    ?? Do you know people with enough time qualifications and money that are willing to work for free? I haven’t.

    • @ThekingoflordaA
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      167 months ago

      I know a few people on a certain site that host a kind of reddit alternative in their free time.

      • @5BC2E7
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        -107 months ago

        I still don’t know any.

        • @puppy
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          97 months ago

          I think you just replied to one.

          • @ThekingoflordaA
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            67 months ago

            No not me lol, I’m a glorified moderator. The guys I’m talking about are the actual hosts of this website.

          • @5BC2E7
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            -57 months ago

            I don’t know him but I do know that people have been banned for criticizing Lemmy administration wrt potential monetization.

            I don’t want to be banned so I will not comment further on the admin.

            I don’t deny that there are software engineers that would work for free but they are not common.

            • iByteABit [he/him]
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              27 months ago

              The potential monetization being the donations to give them a living wage? What exactly is the criticism about, that they shouldn’t get a living wage through donations and should rather make the platform paid or ruin it with ads?

              Why do so many people get off on attacking the idea of FOSS, much of the software that is running our everyday lives is supported through FOSS (and lots of them are also being donated to so that the devs can afford to put food on their tables).

              There are also many devs (on Lemmy as well) that contribute a lot without being paid, simply because they like the project, want to make it better, and want to learn by doing.

              • @5BC2E7
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                -16 months ago

                you must be pretty dense if you expect me to respond after I said I’ll not comment further.

    • @interceder270
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      97 months ago

      I don’t think many people were paid to work on the Fediverse.

      Or emulators.

      Or most free software.

      • @[email protected]
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        -47 months ago

        That isn’t a job to them though, it is more like a hobby.

        If you want peoples undivided attention, you will have to pay them, no matter how utopian your vision.

        Which you can easily afford with 330 million funding.