• Blizzard@lemmy.zip
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    4 months ago

    It doesn’t necessarily have to be ‘work’, people used to make websites out of passion. Now everyone wants to monetize everything.

    • nogooduser@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      It is always work even if it’s a passion project.

      People used to make shitty websites with good content but now they need to make good, professional looking websites for people to even look at them to decide on the whether the content was good.

      This takes time and if you’re doing it for free then you’re choosing to do extra work on top of your day job.

      As others have said, there are costs to hosting a website other than the time that you’re expecting people to give for free.

    • Brickardo@feddit.nl
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      4 months ago

      I feel like this is a dialectic that has been endorsed by the ruling class when talking about menial jobs. ‘Now nobody wants to work’ and whatnot