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Re:Meta acquires Moltbook by entropicdrifter on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @01:16PM (#47326122)
It's also part of their longer-term trend of buying or burying any company that starts to get any press as a social media site of note outside of major players where that hasn't been an option.
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Re:Meta acquires Moltbook by Marsymars on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @02:08PM (#47326797)
This is really it. At Meta's scale, even if it's an long-shot for a competitor to hurt them, it's worth turning those low odds into zero odds.
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Re:Meta acquires Moltbook by alex1138 on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @03:11PM (#47327574)
Yet Zuck can somehow argue with a straight face FB has competition (apparently they straight up used to delete links to competitors like Google+ at the time, and also the constant copying of Snapchat) and Hacker News can split hairs over trivial definitions like "wdym fb no competition? email exists" or whatever
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