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You just provided content -- and encouraged others to provide content -- for a privately run for-profit company who use this site to promote their businesses.
by pbhjpbhj 3y ago
You just provided content -- and encouraged others to provide content -- for a privately run for-profit company who use this site to promote their businesses.
Ideally, forums like this would be some sort of cooperative structure owned and run by those who wish.
I'd love to see r/AskHistorians break off as a co-op who earn their own money and use it to resource history-based activity. They put so much value in that others leech off.
- rightbyte 3y agoYe that is true. I am trying to rationalize why I am not hypocritical right now :) I think the difference is that you created your own forum and community on Reddit under the pretense that it is yours. Reddit more or less sucked up the existing forums. And then Reddit throws more and more ads in your face and siezes control of the means of memeing. HN seems to be run in a different way. Many of the old forums were run by commercial entities, but at the time they did not try to profit from the forums in such a in your face way.