Ryan AshcraftI wrote a blog post about Meta's announcements this week.
Rick van Voorden@ryanashcraft I mostly agree with a couple of extra observations. I'm not so sure I would go so far as to say MZ is *actively trying* to be so evil. Joel Kaplan is… but MZ I believe is mostly motivated from trying to keep FB growing. MZ has *always* been easy to manipulate once he thought FB was threatened. Peter Thiel — and Andressen to an extent — probably wrote the book on that game. MZ thinks he is acting in the best interest of FB first and foremost and rationalizing himself through that.
@ryanashcraft which kind of leads into the second point. MZ has 51 percent of the votes and FB is an echo chamber and groupthink. There's nobody left inside that can convince him to change his mind or give him the perspective he needs. It's ironic they killed DEI… because they *need* diversity now more than ever.
@ryanashcraft the only "good" solutions I see here are government anti trust intervention (unlikely now that MZ has gone full MAGA) or collective bargaining and bottom up organization from employees. Not a "petition" or a "protest" but a legit union with legit union protections to bargain collectively against management.