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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)
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[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 7 points 10 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.