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I can't tell if you are joking but I desperately hope you are.

• csee 5y ago
  That's an obvious joke.
• forty 5y ago
  A nice illustration of Poe's law :) I'm pretty sure it's a joke :D https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
  • ineedasername 5y ago
    Yes I should probably be more careful with an /s on some things. But that also seems to defeat part of the purpose of parody, automatically signalling that you don't need to think more about what I'm saying because I already told you. Sort of like explaining a joke makes it not funny (most times), signalling parody or sarcastic intent seems to dull the pointy end of it. The most extreme will say "yes, this person gets it, they're one of us!" But those a little further from that edge might take a step back and think "wait, is that really what I sound like, really the end conclusion of all this?" Anyway, I'm probably overthinking it.
    • cutemonster 5y ago
      I've also been thinking a bit about that :-) And, it's happened in real life that I said something sarcastically, without indicating this, instead assuming the others would realize -- and instead they thought I was crazy. Maybe my voice sounded too serious
• ineedasername 5y ago
  Is it so hard to believe? Sure, all the same people are running the show and there haven't been any major structural changes, and if you looked closely at the day-to-day things they are indistinguishable pre/post Meta, but it's a different name! It may point to all of the same things, but Meta is not Facebook. Just like when Philip Morris changed its name to Altria-- you could hardly claim Altria had done all of those bad things, it didn't even exist at the time! (Also: joking)