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Meta does a good thing HN spends a day figuring out how it’s actually bad
by baby 2y ago
Meta does a good thing
HN spends a day figuring out how it’s actually bad
- shnock 2y agoIt’s not actually bad, OP’s point is that it is not motivated by altruism. An action can be beneficial to the people without that effect being the incentive
- j_maffe 2y agoOf course, it's not altruism; it's a publicly traded corporation. No one should ever believe in any such claims by these organizations. Non-altruistic organizations can still make positive-impact actions when they align with their goals.
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- satvikpendem 2y agoNo one said it was bad. It's just self interested (as companies generally are) and are using that to have a PR spin on the topic. But again, this is what all companies do and nothing about it is bad per se.
- MrScruff 2y agoNothing they're doing is bad, and sometimes we benefit when large companies interests align with our own. All the spiel about believing in open systems because of being prevented from making their best products by Apple is a bit much considering we're talking about Facebook which is hardly an 'open platform', and the main thing Apple blocked them on was profiling their users to target ads.
- m3kw9 2y agoSo you think FB did this with zero benefit to themselves? They did open source so people could improve their models and eventually have a paid tier later either from hosting services or other strategies
- WithinReason 2y agoThe linked article already spelled out the benefits
- sensanaty 2y agoBy virtue of it being Meta, it's automatically bad. If we lived in a sensible world we'd have nuked Meta into a trillion tiny little pieces some time around the Cambridge Analytica bullshit.