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@pixelfed Honestly, this is the worst open letter I've ever read. It lacks maturity and professionalism. It's full of snarky comments and a tone that doesn't encourage an adult conversation.
He had the chance to show Meta is the one acting like a child, but instead he made himself sound like one. And that's sad.

@hirad I was thinking the same. Completely unnecessary in this form. Sadly way too much self-righteousness here...
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@masteralf @hirad @pixelfed One key point to keep in mind is that Meta software is really, really bad. Links are blocked basically at random, because they use the misnamed "AI" and this is really naive pattern matchers and random number generators. People go around attributing purpose to the actions of Meta's algorithms when really they ought to know better.

Anyway, Mark Zuckerberg is a big dope who could not possibly understand an open letter and so it looks silly even to address one.

@masteralf @hirad @pixelfed I prefer my Pixelfed to my Instagram these days BTW. Instagram is such awful software.

@masteralf @hirad @pixelfed Aside: I sense in here the myth of "enshittification", which is the notion that Zuckerberg provided something idealistic and then "enshittified" it. This myth depends on the assumption that Zuckerberg always intended to give away something out of the pureness of his heart, rather than to make money.

He simply did what you are supposed to do as a profit-making business: get people deeply interested, and THEN charge them a profitable amount for it.