nameless_prole

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.

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.

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.

Anything good Facebook/Meta has ever or will ever possibly make, immediately becomes garbage due to where it came from.

Fruit of the poisonous tree.

I think it would be incredibly naive and foolish to believe Meta has any kind of pure motives for this.

One of the biggest corporations in the world reaching out to its competitor to try to get them to talk “off the record” about “confidential details”… Sounds like a pretty blatant scheme to get them to reveal confidential details about their competitor’s product.

Or maybe Meta has broken with decades of its own conduct, and several centuries of capitalism, in order to reach out in good faith to their competitor. LOL.