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A lot of Redditors hate the Reddit IPO (www.theverge.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/news@hexbear.net
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[–] 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

But there's just no way Reddit NEEDS to be unprofitable. Lemmy is not exactly profitable, but because it's not bloated it can run on very little money. And it accomplishes the same as Reddit. Why can't we have nice things?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Communists don't understand that. Also, if you want something like Reddit to be profitable, just make it paid

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  • [–] 46 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    reddit relies on user generated content, if you make it paid there will be a fraction of the content there is currently.

    Communists don't understand that.

    I can understand it very well. For-profit ideology has crippled public infrastructure in almost every country implementing neoliberal policies. Enshittification is what happens when profit-seeking takes priority over everything else.

    Also, everyone on hexbear is a communist or at the very least left-leaning.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Oh I didn't know hexbear is communistic. I thought it's German or something. Now it all makes sense

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Excuse me.

    Hexbear is not German. Hexbear servers are located on French soil and we're all French libs.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago*

    And liberal death-cultists don't understand that not everything needs a profit motive at all costs, including the lives of those who toil for it but will never get to own it; see, I can do it too

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Mister, my English is not anywhere close to decent enough to understand most of the things you and the previous commenter said. I am not a communist. That's true. But I just didn't know (or didn't remember) it was a communistic community. I didn't mean to say that communism is wrong or anything like that in a communistic place. It would be ridiculous to do so, at least without serious training. And I could just make a mistake about you all too. Oh and if someone tries to spam me, report it is

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Thank you. Actually it's really nice that you're not being aggressive to me. There are a lot of people here (I think most of them are liberal) that are being aggressive when someone just has a different opinion. It's not ok. Anyways have a good day too

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    completely offtopic: Just remember, it's not Linux, its GNU/Linux :)

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    Well yes and no. Afaik some distros do use alternative core utils (Alpine is one of them I think?) so it's not correct to call ALL of them GNU/Linux. Though when it comes to desktop, everyone uses GNU so in that case it is GNU/Linux

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