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"There are thousands of volunteers who donated their labour to Duo... Bit by bit all of our work was hidden from us as Duolingo became a publicly-traded company." (aus.social)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 312 points 8 months ago (26 children)

never give a corporation your labour for free.

People should have known this from the beginning.

[–] [email protected] 240 points 8 months ago (5 children)

These volunteers didn't think about it in these terms.
They gave away their work for free to help people learn languages, and for a long time Duolingo seemed like the best platform for that.

Starting your own platform is much more difficult than contributing to an existing one that seems to be operated with some amount of goodwill...

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