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You don’t smoke ketamine. And it definitely would not be responsible for the type of behavior he exhibits.
That’s just called “extreme avarice,” and “sociopathy.”
You don’t smoke ketamine. And it definitely would not be responsible for the type of behavior he exhibits.
That’s just called “extreme avarice,” and “sociopathy.”
Right, they will do a cost/benefit analysis to see if the amount of traffic and engagement that they lost cost more or less than what they made or saved by forcing log in.
He only cares because it’s not him that’s doing the pillaging.
Also… Quora just seems fucking wild
Everyday Twitter erodes its worth for short-term wealth.
This is, and will always be, the main push of capitalism. This isn’t some cute new term like “enshittification” or something, this is just good ol fashion rent seeking and it’s capitalism working as intended.
Was bound to happen when average people started creating cults of personality around billionaires.
I can’t speak for anyone else, but I haven’t been back to reddit since the blackouts started. No desire to.
“Landed gentry”… Because that’s what I think about when I think about unpaid employees.
Can we stop trying to coin cute terms like “enshittification”? What that term describes is just capitalism working as intended.
There is a term that describes this behavior that we’ve been using for at least decades (to describe behavior that has happened since the inception of capitalism): rent seeking.
Who would know that? Surely not the average user, since we weren’t all invited to this meeting, and everyone who was would be under NDA…
I haven’t really messed with Lemmy at all yet, but Kbin is almost exactly like signing up for/using reddit. if you can use reddit, you can figure out Kbin very easily.
So, because us laymen can’t think of exactly how they would do it, that means it’s not possible?
The best (and often only) indicator of future behavior is past behavior. And if we go on that, I think we all know how Meta looks.
You would only ever know what Meta would be willing to tell you anyway. Also, there’s the whole NDA thing.
Massive corporations never “throw money” at people or things without strings. I’d be very wary about what taking money from Meta would mean.
Fucking thank you. Are people really this gullible? Maybe I have a different perspective because I’ve been free from Facebook for like 15 years now, but do these people really think that Meta/Facebook wants to be nice to its competitors? Suddenly they’re going to give up the business model that has made them one of the biggest, most profitable corporations that has ever existed on this planet, and do the exact opposite of what they did to get there? LOL.
No incentive other than good faith? This is one of the most profitable corporations that has ever existed, talking to one of its competitors. If you think this is how corporations operate, I’ve got news for you. This is like Capitalism 101.
This is super naive. Facebook/Meta has zero interest in “playing nice” with competitors in any field. Their intentions with the fediverse are not pure, and you’re a fool if you think otherwise.
This is capitalism, and this is one of the most profitable corporations that has ever existed on the planet. A corporation who has made those profits almost entirely from the private data of its users (and even some users that aren’t subscribed to their service. That’s how much data they have).
They don’t “work together” with competitors “for the good of everyone.” That’s a pipe dream.
Anything good Facebook/Meta has ever or will ever possibly make, immediately becomes garbage due to where it came from.
Fruit of the poisonous tree.
I’m sure they’re watching the reddit situation very closely.