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I’m sure they’re watching the reddit situation very closely.

I can’t speak for anyone else, but I haven’t been back to reddit since the blackouts started. No desire to.

“Landed gentry”… Because that’s what I think about when I think about unpaid employees.

Can we stop trying to coin cute terms like “enshittification”? What that term describes is just capitalism working as intended.

There is a term that describes this behavior that we’ve been using for at least decades (to describe behavior that has happened since the inception of capitalism): rent seeking.

If you are getting this upset and offended by “Peaches Christ…” By those words. By a silly pseudonym of a performer… Maybe it’s time to reevaluate your life, and what you consider important.

Are you also offended by the title “Jesus Christ Superstar”?

None of this was happening at work, but if you keep pretending that you don’t know that, you can probably get some other ignorant people pissed off about it too

You got paid, because it’s required by law that you do.

That’s not true. Maybe it varies from state to state, I dunno, but I live in an otherwise very blue state, and there’s no statute on the books saying that a private employer must pay for time missed for jury duty.

They are required to allow you to go if you’re summoned, but beyond that, it’s their choice. Obviously, most (if not all) choose not to.

I got called up once and was picked for a case… It was dope. Luckily, it was during break when I was in college, so I didn’t miss any (real) work. And it was only for maybe four days. And it was for a pretty boring insurance fraud case…

But it was still super interesting. Really cool experience.

Who would know that? Surely not the average user, since we weren’t all invited to this meeting, and everyone who was would be under NDA…

Nah.

I haven’t really messed with Lemmy at all yet, but Kbin is almost exactly like signing up for/using reddit. if you can use reddit, you can figure out Kbin very easily.

So, because us laymen can’t think of exactly how they would do it, that means it’s not possible?

The best (and often only) indicator of future behavior is past behavior. And if we go on that, I think we all know how Meta looks.

You would only ever know what Meta would be willing to tell you anyway. Also, there’s the whole NDA thing.

Massive corporations never “throw money” at people or things without strings. I’d be very wary about what taking money from Meta would mean.

True. Gotta be careful about cuddling those floaters.

It’s time for people to stop ignorantly railing against nuclear.

Right, but what percent of “smart home” users actually do this?

Fucking thank you. Are people really this gullible? Maybe I have a different perspective because I’ve been free from Facebook for like 15 years now, but do these people really think that Meta/Facebook wants to be nice to its competitors? Suddenly they’re going to give up the business model that has made them one of the biggest, most profitable corporations that has ever existed on this planet, and do the exact opposite of what they did to get there? LOL.

No incentive other than good faith? This is one of the most profitable corporations that has ever existed, talking to one of its competitors. If you think this is how corporations operate, I’ve got news for you. This is like Capitalism 101.

This is super naive. Facebook/Meta has zero interest in “playing nice” with competitors in any field. Their intentions with the fediverse are not pure, and you’re a fool if you think otherwise.

This is capitalism, and this is one of the most profitable corporations that has ever existed on the planet. A corporation who has made those profits almost entirely from the private data of its users (and even some users that aren’t subscribed to their service. That’s how much data they have).

They don’t “work together” with competitors “for the good of everyone.” That’s a pipe dream.