But what if I want a faster horse?

Re:But what if I want a faster horse? by kridsdale3 on Friday April 11, 2025 @02:59PM (#43657236)

I used to own a part of the Facebook homepage and maximizing its metrics was my job.

They told us they cared about wellbeing. I made a feature that demonstrably improved wellbeing, and we had lots of data and surveys etc to prove it.

But it decreased watch-time on shortform (what we used to call TikTok style) videos so the Director made me delete it. That started my disillusionment process that eventually made me quit.

Money is the only thing that matters to them.

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Re:But what if I want a faster horse? by swiftcoder on Saturday April 12, 2025 @05:19AM (#43662773)

Yeah, I was working at Oculus when the wellbeing narrative started to fall apart across Meta. Was a good time to get out.

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