Meta slashes hiring plans, girds for 'fierce' headwinds

Re:Meta slashes hiring plans, girds for 'fierce' headwinds by phendrenad2 on Friday July 01, 2022 @01:16AM (#31942644)

Blood in the water. Might be a good time to start a new social network. A simple blue interface that doesn't have all of the clutter and noise of Mybook. We can launch at universities first, invite-only.

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Re:Meta slashes hiring plans, girds for 'fierce' headwinds by olivermarks on Friday July 01, 2022 @01:33AM (#31942735)

Look for a big FB data breach when the shiny new next gen platform is ready so everyone will migrate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_data_breaches

and idiotic c suite parties during mass layoffs and cutbacks https://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-ceo-marissa-mayer-blow...

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Re:Meta slashes hiring plans, girds for 'fierce' headwinds by xtracto on Friday July 01, 2022 @09:56AM (#31946447)

Whatever comes to replace Facebook I really hope it is a distributed system that doesn't have a single unique owner. And that monetization is not done through advertising.

The problem with Friendster, MySpace and then Facebook was their centralized nature. It sucks to produce/place your content in a place you have to pay for.

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Re:Meta slashes hiring plans, girds for 'fierce' headwinds by the_biot on Friday July 01, 2022 @04:31PM (#31952417)

That's been done, it's exactly what Mastodon is. It hasn't made a dent in anything.

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Re:Meta slashes hiring plans, girds for 'fierce' headwinds by zaven on Saturday July 02, 2022 @01:51AM (#31956611)

This is exactly what we’re trying to build at Niche. Give us a follow if you’re interested in updates (we’re keeping things pretty low key for now). https://twitter.com/nicheprotocol

Our whole engineering team, myself included, is ex-Facebook.

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Re:Meta slashes hiring plans, girds for 'fierce' headwinds by jondwillis on Saturday July 02, 2022 @12:58PM (#31960628)

hate to inform you it is tiktok

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Re:Meta slashes hiring plans, girds for 'fierce' headwinds by closedloop129 on Friday July 01, 2022 @03:05AM (#31943318)

How come students don't do this every other year? What's Facebook's lock-in that each generation of students cannot monetize their own social graph?

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Re:Meta slashes hiring plans, girds for 'fierce' headwinds by Dan_Sylveste on Friday July 01, 2022 @04:27AM (#31943806)

>What's Facebook's lock-in that each generation of students cannot monetize their own social graph?

Universities and schools using Facebook as their de-facto platform for group announcements, it seems.

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Re:Meta slashes hiring plans, girds for 'fierce' headwinds by maneesh on Friday July 01, 2022 @06:43AM (#31944617)

We could call it themybook.com

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Re:Meta slashes hiring plans, girds for 'fierce' headwinds by d4rkp4ttern on Friday July 01, 2022 @06:57AM (#31944685)

Years ago someone introduced me to FaceBook and found it so ridiculous that I called it FarceBook.

I don’t know why many people don’t see that you can draw a straight line from FarceBook —> Trump —> Roe Overturned

Baffles me why some (seemingly) smart (ML) people still work there, including a certain Turing award winner. Ah yes…must be the money.

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Re:Meta slashes hiring plans, girds for 'fierce' headwinds by quickthrower2 on Friday July 01, 2022 @04:53AM (#31943934)

Whatsapp?

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