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by alex1138 7mo ago
Yeah fair enough, it was a dumb comment Still, the rename to Meta was a cynical ploy regardless
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by alex1138 7mo ago
Is it possible all this was a major ploy to get around antitrust? I'm aware FB has been working on VR for a while even beyond the Oculus that they purchased but it's like... "Facebook bought Whatsapp, yes, but; we're Me
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by alex1138 7mo ago
So that they can push those stupid AI questions at the bottom of Facebook posts Zuck seriously seems to have no clue how to do anything. His entire existence is stealing other people's stuff
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by alex1138 7mo ago
Can I just remind people what Facebook the company is responsible for? And I'm not talking about Myanmar and so on and so forth and I'm not talking about them as a VR entity. People miss posts all the time because the algorithm wo
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by alex1138 7mo ago
> because they'd face similar tech challenges and could benefit from each others' growth playbooks Another point of view: antitrust. What Zuck did with Whatsapp at a minimum ought to be highly illegal. He's a black hat hac
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by alex1138 7mo ago
They already attacked it with everything they've got lmao As in, in 2012. They outright replaced people's email addresses in their profile (makes it harder to reach people outside the walled garden, makes it harder to transfer you
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by alex1138 7mo ago
I've heard of some people getting banned from FB to save memory space? Surely that can't be the case but I swear I've seen something like that
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by alex1138 8mo ago
As an aside that quote from MZ does bother me. There's more to making a web-scale human rights respecting (because it has to, it's the internet, social media needs guidelines) than just making money (which Zuck doesn't seem t
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by alex1138 8mo ago
I can both not like Elon and also think Wikipedia is also very captured on some things
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by alex1138 8mo ago
Gee that can't be abused at all Fuck Reddit
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by alex1138 8mo ago
I don't use IG although they dearly want me to, giving me a popup every time I visit, but let me talk about FB for a second (and btw FB wanted to enable cross-platform messaging on the platforms they own - Meta - which seems anti-trust
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by alex1138 8mo ago
1) Holy fuck I'd borderline forgotten about Numa Numa 2) Reddit... doesn't have much of an incentive to fix the astroturf issue. The site "organically" censors, a lot
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by alex1138 8mo ago
I don't know if it was a psyop. Twitter banned tons of people during covid for completely ridiculous reasons, unless it was somehow all forced by court order or something
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by alex1138 8mo ago
Yet Zuck can somehow argue with a straight face FB has competition (apparently they straight up used to delete links to competitors like Google+ at the time, and also the constant copying of Snapchat) and Hacker News can split hairs over tr
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by alex1138 8mo ago
Yeah so if you ever need info on people at Harvard just ask... people just submitted it, I don't know why; they 'trust me', dumb fucks
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by alex1138 8mo ago
Jack seemed interested in the protocol side of the house and making a good product that was in spirit of the internet, it also had a mix of people you might know IRL (with reasonable privacy defaults) and official sources/public figure
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by alex1138 8mo ago
Thanks Hacker News
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by alex1138 8mo ago
Whatsapp is one of the only instances I can think of in corporate acquisitions where the side being acquired lashes out at the acquiring side as much as this ("It's time. Delete Facebook") You're talking about someone wh
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by alex1138 8mo ago
It does. Reddit has defined what truth is. Banning r/nonewnormal is merely one part of that
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by alex1138 8mo ago
Is there a legitimate reason why only Google can trawl Reddit or is it just more monopolistic bullshit?
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by alex1138 8mo ago
I could be wrong but I think they were basically forced to add Feeds by regulation (out of Europe?) For ages it was Top Stories vs Most Recent. Most Recent didn't even work, and of course it would always change you back to Top Stories
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by alex1138 8mo ago
"Districts" don't seem to be as built in. There was one made by someone, since shut down (for reasons unknown). But yeah I guess it's intended to be the spiritual successor
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by alex1138 8mo ago
Facebook automatically tags people in photos
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by alex1138 8mo ago
If platforms didn't hand out bans like candy (probably USING said AI!) this MIGHT make a bare modicum of sense
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by alex1138 8mo ago
I'm curious whether anybody but wunderkind, we-want-bubble-2.0-after-the-first-one-crashed hype speculation Zuckerberg could have gotten away with theytrustmedumbfucks. Maybe he'd be "making an insightful commentary on human
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by alex1138 8mo ago
Yeah, it's incredibly ham fisted. I do not understand Zuckerberg's brain. The man is incapable of coming up with a good product or it was some product engineer given absolutely free reign to do whatever they wanted. AI summaries d
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by alex1138 8mo ago
This could be, but the complaint about Facebook has always been people are posting but the feed won't show them posts from friends
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by alex1138 8mo ago
Zuckerberg is what I might refer to as "forced" network effects. And I don't mean the natural network effects that result from people using a good and hence popular product (or network effects building on itself). Facebook re
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by alex1138 8mo ago
Now if only Google could a) drop its commitment to censorship and b) stop prioritizing Youtube links in its answers
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by alex1138 8mo ago
I can't speak for others' definition of addiction but Facebook has been pretty bad about artificially inflating users' activities. Outright fake notifications, even spamming people's 2FA phone numbers

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