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Re:Why Is Facebook Not in the Cloud Business? by basch on Monday March 23, 2020 @04:36PM (#22668478)
Ive thought they should break into the "social network services" market for a long time. You want to build the next reddit or facebook, facebook is equipped to handle a lot of the heavy lifting. Facebook could profit off the competition, by selling them engineering and compute as a service, without having to gobble up every threat.

https://telegra.ph/Facebook-Social-Services-FbSS-a-missed-op...

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Re:Why Is Facebook Not in the Cloud Business? by lioeters on Monday March 23, 2020 @09:04PM (#22670707)
"Build the next Reddit or Facebook, on Facebook Social Services"

That does sound good, even for someone like me who has spent considerable effort ridding my life of FB's influence.

The killer product they have is their users and the data mined from them. Allowing third-party apps to leverage their infrastructure as a service would be brilliant.

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