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How much time and money would it take to set up and maintain a server similar to disroot.org, offering the same services, for a group of ten people? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I'm kind of with you on this, volunteer has always been something done of a persons own volition without recieving compensation. Even when someone is holding a sign saying "will work for food" they are trying to barter, not voluneer for something.

I think as I get older I just get less willing to accept new uses for existing words. I grew up without a lot of social interaction so I may just not fully understand, or maybe it's just something that was lost in translation.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Mostly because when someone is trying to use an existing word to mean something new, they are usually trying to manipulate, weaponize, or intentionally conflate it with something else to give people the wrong idea.

    As a (unpaid) volunteer of my local mountain bike club, we have to spend a lot of time reeducating the public and politicians that no, slapping pedals on an electric motorcycle does not make it an "ebike", because that's what these companies have intentionally convinced them of. That is a device that has a legal classification that includes a 750w/28MPH limit.

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