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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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