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Re:Meta Is Said to Plan Thousands More Layoffs as Soon as Th... by red-iron-pine on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @09:23AM (#35055640)
...they say, posting on HN, a slightly watered down dopamine dispenser brought to you by the people that made Reddit happen.

I still think VR might be a hard sell for most people. As dumb as large groups of people may be, it's clear that people are ditching FB and slowly backing away from a lot of social media. It's tricking out that it's not always a great thing, and there is legit buy-in from huge chunks of the Left and Right to restrict what social media does.

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Re:Meta Is Said to Plan Thousands More Layoffs as Soon as Th... by yamtaddle on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @10:13AM (#35056193)
All of this stuff is locked behind AR/VR glasses that are close enough in size, shape, and weight to normal sunglasses. If someone manages to build that, it'll be the biggest thing to hit computing since the smartphone. If not, it's all going nowhere.
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Re:Meta Is Said to Plan Thousands More Layoffs as Soon as Th... by Traubenfuchs on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @10:24AM (#35056331)
> ...they say, posting on HN, a slightly watered down dopamine dispenser brought to you by the people that made Reddit happen.

I by no means wanted to exclude myself from the groups I so derogatively named. Hacker News is pure infotainment to me. The quality is above reddit though, but that's not a high bar.

> it's clear that people are ditching FB and slowly backing away from a lot of social media

Are they? To me it looks like TikTok addiction and stupidity is continuously peaking.

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Re:Meta Is Said to Plan Thousands More Layoffs as Soon as Th... by megaman8 on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @12:18PM (#35058053)
I'd say HN quality is way way better than Reddit, entirely due to the audience. Reddit is very much anti-knowledge, anti-solution, anti-reason whereas HN features intelligent discussions, often supported by facts.
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Re:Meta Is Said to Plan Thousands More Layoffs as Soon as Th... by HDThoreaun on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @12:00PM (#35057725)
It's really not clear that people are ditching FB. They showed 20% more ads last quarter than in the quarter the year before.
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