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Facebook unceremoniously kills off Meta brand

37 points by clavigne 5y ago

clavigne 5y ago
For context, I came across this because I was interested in how they came to acquire the Twitter four-letter twitter handle @meta, which I wrote about here https://twitter.com/cyri77e/status/1453886080789405707 https://twitter.com/cyri77e/status/1453886080789405707 Turns out it's harvested from the Meta company linked here that the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative acquired. Before that the @meta handle was held by an early twitter user fro. Turkey. This is basically the unremarkable story of the "been on Twitter since 2010" profile with handle @meta.
- bibinou 5y ago
  more context on the title: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29034029 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29034029 Facebook Unceremoniously Kills Off 'Oculus' Brand (techcrunch.com) 202 points by Factorium 11 hours ago
mytailorisrich 5y ago
Call me cynical but to me the optics here is that they acquired Meta under the 'cover' of philanthropy (it' a free tool so do they even have any revenue) but seem to have only been interested in the brand, which they then took away for commercial use and just closed down the company. On the other hand, their Wikipedia page states that they have 350 employees, which is quite a large number, so they were probably (hopefully?) also interested in acquiring the pool of engineers and data scientists. Either way, that does not look very philanthropic...
- rmahan 5y ago
  Can’t imagine a large amount of the data scientists that worked for Meta would like to work for Facebook
cblconfederate 5y ago
Your avatar is more important than cancer
ravenstine 5y ago
> Scientific knowledge network powered by machine intelligence > On October 28, 2021, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative announced the sunset of Meta, with a proposed shutdown date of March 31, 2022. This really describes the overall mindset of humanity right now. Discovery, learning, and advancement? Nah, f*** it. Let's build a VR dystopia.
- bobthechef 5y ago
  The Church of Doritos and Porn.
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37 points by clavigne 5y ago

For context, I came across this because I was interested in how they came to acquire the Twitter four-letter twitter handle @meta, which I wrote about here https://twitter.com/cyri77e/status/1453886080789405707 https://twitter.com/cyri77e/status/1453886080789405707 Turns out it's harvested from the Meta company linked here that the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative acquired. Before that the @meta handle was held by an early twitter user fro. Turkey. This is basically the unremarkable story of the "been on Twitter since 2010" profile with handle @meta.

bibinou 5y ago
more context on the title: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29034029 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29034029 Facebook Unceremoniously Kills Off 'Oculus' Brand (techcrunch.com) 202 points by Factorium 11 hours ago

mytailorisrich 5y ago

Call me cynical but to me the optics here is that they acquired Meta under the 'cover' of philanthropy (it' a free tool so do they even have any revenue) but seem to have only been interested in the brand, which they then took away for commercial use and just closed down the company. On the other hand, their Wikipedia page states that they have 350 employees, which is quite a large number, so they were probably (hopefully?) also interested in acquiring the pool of engineers and data scientists. Either way, that does not look very philanthropic...

rmahan 5y ago
Can’t imagine a large amount of the data scientists that worked for Meta would like to work for Facebook

cblconfederate 5y ago

Your avatar is more important than cancer

ravenstine 5y ago

> Scientific knowledge network powered by machine intelligence > On October 28, 2021, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative announced the sunset of Meta, with a proposed shutdown date of March 31, 2022. This really describes the overall mindset of humanity right now. Discovery, learning, and advancement? Nah, f*** it. Let's build a VR dystopia.

bobthechef 5y ago
The Church of Doritos and Porn.

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