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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 9 months ago by Star@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] obinice@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I wasn't aware that Lemmy is a for-profit enterprise.

Plus, my getting use out of a product and simply by doing so helping the company make money (say by increasing engagement or such), is extremely different to somebody going out of their way to produce work for that company in a way that doesn't directly benefit the producer at all.

Put another way - Am I helping keep my local supermarket in business simply by shopping there? Sure. Would I offer my free time to help clean their store?

Hell. No.

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

In 2009 Duolingo was originally funded by the NSF. Their motto was free education will change the world.

In the 14 years since, they became something else. All those crowd sourced comments from a good upstanding project require the project and it's data not to become evil.