'Unlike some of the 3P [third-party] apps, we are not profitable,' Steve Huffman says in defending the move to charge for high-volume API access.

‘Unlike some of the 3P [third-party] apps, we are not profitable,’ Steve Huffman says in defending the move to charge for high-volume API access.

  • WalterzarBoBalterzar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    2 years ago

    With all due respect to reddit’s employees who do deserve gainful employment,

    Does a link aggregator really need a huge labor pool? In terms of functionality Lemmy is already on par with how I remember Reddit 10 years ago (compared to which the experience of Reddit today is actually worse). And Lemmy achieves it with what, an extreme fraction of the labor cost?

    Props to all the devs, admins, etc who are hosting all these Lemmy instances for us, btw :)

      • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        14·
        2 years ago

        Majority of them hired last year, back in 2021 they only had 700. The only reasonable explanation would have been adding hundreds of new admins/moderators, but I don’t think that was the case, so I have no clue what all of them have been doing for the last year and a half.

      • Perdendosi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        2 years ago

        My guess? 250 devs 200 administrative folks (secretaries, hr, accounting, etc) 50 executive level 1500 marketing and communications and sales folks

        :)