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Spot-on. Hacker News has a hate-boner for Facebook and the Facebook-branded products, but from an engineering standpoint they're up there with Netflix solving p
by talldayo 2y ago
Spot-on. Hacker News has a hate-boner for Facebook and the Facebook-branded products, but from an engineering standpoint they're up there with Netflix solving problems at scale. FAIR had a better reputation than OpenAI since the start, and they've developed the Oculus acquisition to it's logical extremes. You can do a lot worse, looking at the way their peers handle similar situations.
All the big tech companies have a Facebook-esque product they wish they could get rid of forever. Meta has Facebook, and instead of imploding like everyone said they would (for decades) they demonstrated competency in engineering and culture. The next 4 years will be a gauntlet with a literal "Mr. X" advising social media policy, but I frankly don't think Facebook has ever been down for the count in a pragmatic sense.
- dgfitz 2y agoI think the only concept I’ve heard as to the decline of Facebook is, Facebook is for “older people” (read: millennials+) but I have no idea how true this is.
- zxvkhkxvdvbdxz 2y agoIt totally depends! I used to live in the city and now I live out in nowhere land. Everything around here is done thru facebook groups and facebook events. If you want to keep in touch with the community, it is really only on facebook. Some of my older facebook friends seem to have left the platform and I seen more than once of my old city friends posting final goodbyes declaring they are leaving the "dead" platform for discord or some stuff where their family will never find them.
- nmfisher 2y agoDid anyone think Facebook would fall over because their engineering sucked? It’s the product itself that’s garbage, not the infrastructure or the code.