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I don’t think Meta even needs to care about the valuable aspects of Twitter. If everyone on Twitter jumps ship to Meta, Meta will own even more social media and

I don’t think Meta even needs to care about the valuable aspects of Twitter. If everyone on Twitter jumps ship to Meta, Meta will own even more social media and there’s no way that isn’t a win.

TeMPOraL 3y ago
Might get big enough for antitrust.
- l33t233372 3y ago
  Anti trust for a free service? Unless you mean from an ads perspective, but there are many ad companies.
  - ben_w 3y ago
    A quick search suggests Meta face or faced two antitrust cases in the USA (acquisition of Instagram and WhatsApp, and separately a restraining order against the purchase of Within Unlimited), and have been warned of the possibility of antitrust charges in the EU (regarding advertising).
    - l33t233372 3y ago
      That’s interesting. I wonder what the legal arguments were
- kmeisthax 3y ago
  Meta has been big enough for antitrust since at least 2010 when they went on an M&A kick[0]. Definitely they should have been blocked from buying Instagram back in 2012. Problem is, by that point governments had effectively hollowed out their antitrust enforcement agencies[1]. So the only option now is to break companies up. Related note: I don't think anyone should be talking about Threads in the language of competition. Either this displaces Twitter entirely or (more likely) it dies on the vine. While there's been a lot of movement to Mastodon and Bluesky, Twitter is still around. There's no competition between the two; they're serving different markets. The people who jumped ship are the kinds of people who were already getting sick and tired of Twitter's toxicity. The people who remain are either hardcore outrage addicts or journalists and politicians feeding their addiction. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Meta_Platforms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio... [1] This is often couched in the language of the free market, but practically speaking this was done because bigger platforms are easier to understand and easier to regulate.
  - DANmode 3y ago
    Surely letting every alphabet group and Cambridge Analytica grab some of that treasure trove of "oops, our API was poorly scoped" data was prioritized higher than breaking up or otherwise slowing down Facebook.
vGPU 3y ago
Zuckerbot controlling an even larger portion of the public discourse is somehow a good thing?
- thrashh 3y ago
  I’m speaking from Zuckerbot’s PoV since that’s what I replied to.

I don’t think Meta even needs to care about the valuable aspects of Twitter. If everyone on Twitter jumps ship to Meta, Meta will own even more social media and there’s no way that isn’t a win.

TeMPOraL 3y ago

Might get big enough for antitrust.

l33t233372 3y ago
Anti trust for a free service? Unless you mean from an ads perspective, but there are many ad companies.
- ben_w 3y ago
  A quick search suggests Meta face or faced two antitrust cases in the USA (acquisition of Instagram and WhatsApp, and separately a restraining order against the purchase of Within Unlimited), and have been warned of the possibility of antitrust charges in the EU (regarding advertising).
  - l33t233372 3y ago
    That’s interesting. I wonder what the legal arguments were
kmeisthax 3y ago
Meta has been big enough for antitrust since at least 2010 when they went on an M&A kick[0]. Definitely they should have been blocked from buying Instagram back in 2012. Problem is, by that point governments had effectively hollowed out their antitrust enforcement agencies[1]. So the only option now is to break companies up. Related note: I don't think anyone should be talking about Threads in the language of competition. Either this displaces Twitter entirely or (more likely) it dies on the vine. While there's been a lot of movement to Mastodon and Bluesky, Twitter is still around. There's no competition between the two; they're serving different markets. The people who jumped ship are the kinds of people who were already getting sick and tired of Twitter's toxicity. The people who remain are either hardcore outrage addicts or journalists and politicians feeding their addiction. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Meta_Platforms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio... [1] This is often couched in the language of the free market, but practically speaking this was done because bigger platforms are easier to understand and easier to regulate.
- DANmode 3y ago
  Surely letting every alphabet group and Cambridge Analytica grab some of that treasure trove of "oops, our API was poorly scoped" data was prioritized higher than breaking up or otherwise slowing down Facebook.

vGPU 3y ago

Zuckerbot controlling an even larger portion of the public discourse is somehow a good thing?

thrashh 3y ago
I’m speaking from Zuckerbot’s PoV since that’s what I replied to.