A reflection of the state of the world then?
A reflection of the state of the world then?
Spare some knowledge stranger? That’s a dark path I don’t wish to travel.
I see no way they aren’t a competitor. Meta is a company. Companies exists to make money. Meta makes money by driving engagement and then monitizing via ads or user data sale for others to target ads.
Like are we all supposed to pretend a company, Meta of all companies, is an altruistic entity? Because that’s not how it works… At all.
Remove corporations from social networks.
The sooner we realize corporate control of social media was a massive mistake, the better the world will be. Imagine if corporate social media algos that drive engagement through ragebaiting hadn’t existed for the last 10 years…
Give kbin a shot if you find Lemmy confusing. I found it much more approachable personally.
Honestly, fuck proprietary systems and corporate control. Algos and corporations are literally destroying the world. The fediverse might be one of the most important technologies on the I internet in a very long time. This is a hill I will die on.
I mean it does have an API, it’s just disabled and needs some work.
I would argue we also don’t want to be in a place where we rely on any one individual. Thankfully @ernest seems to understand that as well.
We must go lower!
Do we know if there have been any releases since the influx of users? Or are they just focusing on backend stuff still?
There’s still a lot of long hanging fruit *COUGHcollapsingthreads that would be great to have addressed sooner rather than later.
It’s crazy (sad) how much we are all starting to have to rely on the EU to save us from the BS.