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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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      1 year ago

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

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        1 year ago

        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.