Given that one of the earliest comments on this post was:

> Wow, the company created, funded, and used exclusively by Facebook re-affirms Facebook's decision to do something?

> Truly shocking

i.e. someone blindly adding to the anti-tech dogpile without even bothering to click on the article and, you know, read it, I'd hold off on any diatribes about how SV is a monoculture. The anti-SV crowd seems to be afflicted by a similar rabid tribalism that makes nuanced discussion very difficult.