• space_comrade [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 年前

    Yeah but capitalism also made reddit great

    Engineers and designers made it great. Reddit could very well exist without capitalism (see Lemmy). What fucked up Reddit was explicitly capitalist incentives.

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      Lemmy would not have existed without Reddit. Lemmy is a clone of reddit!

      Plus reddit put all the work intro attracting users and communities in the first place, before driving them to places like lemmy.

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        You should probably read up on the original author of reddit, Aaron Schwartz, before claiming capitalism made it.

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          I know about Aaron Schwartz. His beliefs didn’t change the fact that Reddit had major VC backing and wouldn’t have existed without it.

          It’s really not a hard concept to grasp.

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              Bruh, reddit was created in search of capital. It grew and attracted communities in search of capital.

              Reddit wouldn’t have existed otherwise.

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                Aaron Schwartz did not author reddit in search of capital. He created it because he thought it would facilitate internet communication. Ohanian thought he could profit off of it.