Re:/u/spez is right about feudalism and that's why Reddit as...
by whateveracct on Sunday July 02, 2023 @02:37PM
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I think you're really misapplying labor politics to a casual website. I'd even go as far to say that comparing being a reddit mod to share cropping to be tasteless and offensive! I wouldn't say that opinion in public with my face & name associated with it, that's for sure.
Mods can Just Quit. They can go self-host. Nobody is making them use Reddit. This isn't a labor situation where anyone's livelihood is at stake.
Re:/u/spez is right about feudalism and that's why Reddit as...
by AndrewKemendo on Sunday July 02, 2023 @05:00PM
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Covered your complaint here:
So what do you call that economic system in which individual people volunteer to improve privately owned property and the only “compensation” is simply the opportunity to use/improve private property.
And again, unlike sharecropping, volunteers get zero of the property as fiat to convert.
Preemptively there’s no possible pathway to claim that Reddit is a “Public Commons”, because nobody but the legal owners and their designated controllers, determine the distribution of value or future of the property.