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Mark Zuckerberg messages Facebook engineer
- ohjeez 2y agoAlso posted at https://bsky.app/profile/techemails.bsky.social/post/3lhox2pjrqk2x https://bsky.app/profile/techemails.bsky.social/post/3lhox2p...
- LeoPanthera 2y agoThis should be the URL in the post, Twitter requires a login, Bluesky doesn't.
- weberer 2y agoI prefer the Nitter mirror https://xcancel.com/TechEmails/status/1888313183024074910#m https://xcancel.com/TechEmails/status/1888313183024074910#m
- pabs3 2y agoI prefer the nitter.net instance, it doesn't have any JS-only captchas.
- dewey 2y agoWhy support a workaround-hack for a dying platform instead of a well working alternative that many shift towards already?
- nathanaldensr 2y agoBecause some people don't agree with your biased characterization.
- dewey 2y agoThe workaround service is called "xcancel.com", I think the characterization is there already.
- drivingmenuts 2y agoIs it biased to call him a racist? A Neo-Nazi? Personally, I don't want to be associated with or provide help to that.
- s1mplicissimus 2y agoI dislike twitter just as much as the next guy, but i was able to read the conversation without logging in. EU exit point here. Maybe that plays a role? having to click through each single image is quiet the turn-off though. not missing the platform
- ohjeez 2y agoI want to reward people for posting on Bluesky instead. If they get more engagement on Bluesky, it'll motivate them to move.
- frizlab 2y agoFrom the EU here, I had to login to read everything.
- rsynnott 2y agoI can see the first post on Twitter, but nothing else. Also in the EU. It seems to be fairly random, really. Probably best to go with a fully working social network where available for this sort of post.
- s1mplicissimus 2y agonevermind. turns out someone else had logged into twitter and forgot to log out. i didn't notice because i haven't been using the site in ages. please ignore my initial comment
- b212 2y agoAs much as I hate Twitter I was unable to read this @ Bluesky at my iPhone 13 Mini because left/right arrows covered words, this is a mobile design straight from the mid 00s. So bad.
- raviisoccupied 2y agoThank you for linking this
- sk11001 2y agoPretty cool. Stuff like this doesn't happen enough at non-tech companies.
- fujinghg 2y agoIt does. They just usually don't have cash on hand to get out of the fuck ups from doing zero rational financial analysis and disappear in a puff of smoke 6 months down the line.
- spydum 2y agoYeah I would strongly disagree it does happen just sometimes those senior engineers are not as enlightened as the executives think.
- yapyap 2y agonothing really happened here either tbf, mark was kinda talkin to himself // bouncing ideas off a wall
- brookst 2y agoFrom the perspective of the “engineer”’s responses, I’m guessing by this is a VERY senior engineer, maybe a technical fellow or whatever Facebook calls them.
- buildbot 2y agoYeah, like just below the CTO or whoever probably. Even then they just quickly switch to just kinda bouncing the whatever Zuck comes up with back at them.
- lumost 2y agoAlso possible that he pinged a random junior engineer for a fresh perspective. Social media trends tend to start with a younger audience. However the engineers’s comment on team assets implies seniority.
- buildbot 2y agoSeems like Zuckerberg had already made up his mind and needed an engineer to positively confirm his desired path through a very power imbalanced chat... No shade towards the engineer at all, but besides the very first "My instinct is” comment the engineer literally could have just been ChatGPT and Zuck would have gotten a similar convo.
- ysofunny 2y agoif this cartoon [1] is a reliable source, then maybe it's not (or possibly didn't used to be) such a strange thing at facebook [1] https://bonkersworld.net/organizational-charts https://bonkersworld.net/organizational-charts
- grugagag 2y agoYeah, I've seen this one before but it never ceases to amuse me.
- croisillon 2y agoi think it was more a reference to their (old) welcome page https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-facebook-social-network-internet-website-homepage-close-up-28355545.html https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-facebook-social-network-in...
- ce4 2y agoI dont think one could reason that. Maybe some insight: The author is an engineer and had worked at Google and published the Goomics strip internally. It is also available at https://goomics.net/62 https://goomics.net/62 PS: Later he worked at Twitter and commented that also: https://twittoons.com/ https://twittoons.com/
- NoboruWataya 2y agoIn fairness if the founder and CEO pings me and asks me who the company should buy, you can bet I'm giving a similarly hand wavy bullshit answer.
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- almosthere 2y agoDo we need to continue placing MZ at God Status?
- colordrops 2y agoNo, how about lord or duke.
- ripped_britches 2y agoTitle needs a date on it
- oldgradstudent 2y agoFrom Zuckerberg's messages, it appears that an important motivation for buying Instagram was to limit the competition facing Facebook. Thanks Obama for enforcing the Sherman Antitrust Act: > SECTION 1. Every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, is hereby declared to be illegal. Every person who shall make any contract or engage in any combination or conspiracy hereby declared to be illegal shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and, on con-viction thereof, shall be punished by fine not exceeding $100,000,000 if a corporation, or, if any other person, $1,000,000, or by imprisonment not exceeding 10 years, or by both said punishments, in the discretion of the court.
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 2y ago[Discussing Instagram prior to Facebook acquisition.] "Mark: Hmm. Engagement metrics? Engineer: 23 mins daily per user. Teens. 94% return weekly. But here's the kicker: Their EXIF scraper tags locations silently. Imagine layering that with FB's graph. Hyper-local ads without asking. Mark: Go on. Engineer: They're a Trojan horse."
- hiyer 2y agoSo who was the engineer?
- darthrupert 2y ago[flagged]
- sidcool 2y agoWhy what happened?
- KaiserPro 2y agogestures vaguely at the world
- tzs 2y agoIf you are not logged into a Twitter [1] account it usually only shows you the post, not any replies. Some people who are not logged in do get to see the whole thread but I haven't seen anyone figure out how it decides who gets that privilege. Usually you can work around that by changing this host from x.com to xcancel.com. [1] I continue to call it Twitter rather than X because Twitter is easier to search for. For example if you wanted to find all my comments here about or mentioning Twitter a comment search for "author:tzs twitter" would find them. There are very few, if any, times that the string "twitter" occurs in my corpus of HN comments where it isn't referring to the social media service formerly known as Twitter. A search for "author:tzs x" on the other hand will overwhelming bring up comments that have nothing to do with that social media service.
- axiologist 2y agohttps://xcancel.com/TechEmails/status/1888313183024074910 https://xcancel.com/TechEmails/status/1888313183024074910