Imagine this being your red line. Your totally prepared to work at Facebook, because there's absolutely nothing dodgy about that, but suddenly his transphobia is a problem.
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It’s ok to let their platform spread misinformation and hatred that affects millions, but it’s not OK when that comes back and bites them in the ass.
Nah Meta is widely regarded as one of the best employers in the world. I'd take 300k/usd year and all of the benefits too. Let's stop pretending that traditional companies are somehow better so you either don't work for any corporation or actually work for one that provides incredibly benefits to you so you have the luxury to give back and steer the ship towards good a little bit.
Personally, I wouldn't but this is the reasoning most employees have when joining Meta.
Nah Meta is widely regarded as one of the best employers in the world
lolwut
They pay a lot, but everyone knows they're overworked like hell. Meta is a shit-tier employer, but if you're a young masochist then they're worth a few years to pad your accounts.
Please note - 99% of the time on the internet, when someone says "in the wuuurld" they mean "In this one capitalist hellhole country" so in this case it may be correct
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Nice try, Zuckerberg...
OK Meta HR...
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But what is your mobility as one of its workers? What other social networks can they begin working for realistically in such a small market? Maybe that's the way to fight against Zuckerberg's and Musk's attempts to turn their networks into propaganda tools for the highest bidder, to encourage disgruntled workers to start their own social networks and then go support them as well. I would seriously consider paying for an adequately moderated ActivityPub alternate that truly respected its users, was truly transparent, focuses on high quality content, and prevented brigade agenda pushing.
I don't know if they use activityPub but open source Facebook equivalence do exist.
I know because me and my friend thought we were onto a great idea with "social networks as a protocol" but it turns out that it already existed. For some reason it just doesn't seem to have taken off in the same way that Mastodon has, not that Mastodon itself is that successful (look at its numbers compared to Blue Sky).
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Major props to those causing a ruckous internally there. That said, they likely fully expected a backlash and likely didn't care. Anyone who cares can be replaced by another sycophant, at a reduced salary even.
Zuck fully expects to take advantage of the H1B push President Musk is advocating for.
You get what you pay for. They'll be drawing from "the best of the rest" in a dwindling pool.
They pay well enough to get anyone who doesn't care about principles. Plenty people in tech like that.
They don't need the very best to make profit for a very long time, especially in a friendly regulatory regime. Check IBM for reference.
They own the social media market and have enough capital to acquire any plausible competitor, as have done in the past.
Losing top talent is only a significant price to pay if the firm or its competitors are still building new stuff that affects their bottom line. Meta is happy raking in the social media-ad profits. Google is happy raking in the search-ad profits. They're all busy getting more money out of the markets they've monopolized, not competing.
Nah, with Trump in office, he'll be delighted to hire in H1B slave labor ...
Since when is/will be Trump in office. I only see President Musk.
LMAO, employees are about to find out why a union would be a good idea. Gotta speedrun growing class consciousness.
Tech bros are too smart for that. They are true libertarians. Totally can get a better deal on their own. /S
Man they’re not even doing the dog-whistle thing anymore, huh? Fucking disgusting, I hope he experiences the everlasting warmth of a car fire in the near future.
Maybe we blow up another Tesla.
If they don’t blow themselves up, that is.
Gee I wonder why he’s suddenly decided to start moving parts of the business to Texas… little Musk-ette over here…
All of this is very likely to kiss the ring of Herr Trump
Unfortunately it's a very rational choice to cozy up to an incoming fascist dictator.
- Facebook/Instagram/Whatsapp/Oculus
- Amazon
- Apple
- OpenAI
I am surprised myself, but making progress of not using their products. For example did not buy any gift via Amazon this Christmas.
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All of this is very likely to kiss the ring of Herr Trump
Not likely, obviously.
Fecesbook is crap. Crap take from a crappy data salesman with nothing but crap to sell. I can't wait until it eats itself from all the bots.
Meta was already enabling genocide in third world countries and countless other things but this is what caused chaos. Those employees have weird priorities, huh?
[edit] reworded slightly on the account of caused controversy
Not like they're a bunch of committed leftists working there.
Which is more likely to impact a Meta employee personally?
Not sure why you're being down voted, it's a fair point.
In fairness, do we know for certain what happened in Facebook back then? Maybe some employees did protest, maybe they're the same people protesting now, even. Or they quit. Thing is, LGBT issues make engaging articles. Third world suffering? Eh, it depends.
Yet, I agree with the overall point because this is the crux of the matter: on average, one of these simply matters more—one way or another, see transphobes cheering—for people of this subgroup. This is us.
The usual notes apply: good on them for protesting, big media isn't helping, fully ethical employment is like fully ethical consumption.
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Better late than never.
feel free to be heroes and leak meta's source code before leaving.
That’s a bit like emptying the sewer into the street
Meta employees suddenly discovering their conscience is a bit rich.
Still, it's good to see there are people there who won't just go along with anything.
i think I've finally reached peak zuckerberg, i don't want to read one more thing about facebook or meta or whatever
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He is going to be bare ass naked running down the halls screaming for employees to "come at me bro"
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