devd2000Jul 7, 2023
That’s the reason the product exists for. They have to increase the value for their shareholders.
Show threadBalsshJul 7, 2023

Increasing “value” for shareholders in spite of user experience should be a reason to be sent to the guillotine.

In al seriousness now, being profitable is ok, but these companies try to be ever more profitable while not giving a flying fuck about the impact they have.

Show threaddevd2000
How do you define impact here?
Jul 8, 2023 at 4:22amWeb
Show threadBalsshJul 8, 2023

Increasing the echo chambers of conspiracy theorists, extremist and with that influencing things like elections seems quite the impact to me. All these mega corporations could’ve tried to limit these things, but probably that would’ve looked bad on their balance sheets.

Add to this the insane amount of data harvesting they do on their users and in general just making every damn platform worse from year to year while only looking for ever more profits.

Show threadjandar_fettJul 8, 2023
The user below failed to mention Meta is indirectly responsible for an actual Genocide through their purposeful lack of oversight and endless desire for engagement at no matter the cost.