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Meta/Facebook. Look how instagram, WhatsApp, and oculus are doing. Even the stuff they ended up abandoning they cleaned up and open sourced (like Parse)

• to11mtm 3y ago
  Ironically... Yeah. They have done a better-than-most job of trying to default to open (for all of their other failings)
• freedomben 3y ago
  Meta really doesn't get enough credit for their open source contributions and stewardship of important tech. Of course there are very real criticisms of Facebook and their engagement strategies and such, but LLaMa has been incredible, on top of things like React of course.
• kelnos 3y ago
  They're doing well, but at least Instagram and WhatsApp are much worse for the end user than they were pre-acquisition. To the point where I've stopped using Instagram, and have moved as many of my chats off WhatsApp as I could.
• chefkoch 3y ago
  They helped to divide society / politics and are a cesspool for conspiracy theories but hey they open sourced some stuff.
  • signatoremo 3y ago
    Maybe not in the US, or in your bubble, but a lot of people still use FB to connect with friends and family, or their groups of interest. Many more use it for the marketplace, to sell and buy things. For them FB is an indispensable venue. As for helping divide society/ politics, have you paid attention to HN front page the last few days? Wave and wave of OpenAI posts, with huge amount of ignorant, uninformed, speculative, conspiracy driven, repetitive, divisive comments that got endlessly upvoted and promoted. That reflects who the HN audience is and what we are interested in. You may say that HN also helps divide society/politics. Yet you, and I, are still here.