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Thats 8000 people with experience running social media that could use their knowledge and wealth to build the Fediverse and competitively reduce Meta's monopoly.
If even a small group of them realise the agency they have, it could be damaging to Meta, and an acceptable form of growth for the Fediverse as a whole.
I'm assuming anybody that works at Meta still now must be so signed up to their horrible practices, so i don't expect much from former Meta employees. I'd be happy to be surprised though.
That's 8000 people who would use their knowledge to monetize the Fediverse by selling bots that push agendas.
Yeah, don’t expect much from the What can I be expected to do? I need a job crowd.
They will never sacrifice a moment of inconvenience or a dollar for any of us.
Is it that hard? As a programmer, I've never seen anything on Faceblerk that made me go "wow! How did they do that?"
I don't know, going from an almost irreplaceable social planning tool to a classified ads host is pretty remarkable. Like in the 2010s my Facebook was my social calendar. Now I can't even be bothered to recover my account to get onto the market place to buy used crap.
Seems so since no one can fucking do it.
It's more about the money than the technology.
8000 people used to high salaries and probably living in or around silicon valley with insane cost of living. I don't have high hopes for them switching to working on fediverse projects...
Many of them are petite bourgeoisie sure, but I don't think you realize how hungry so many people in tech are to work on something real and good.
What the fuck is stopping them then?
Plenty of us are out here spending our own money on our own projects not expecting millions for it. What’s their fucking excuse?
I think awareness of the Fediverse, or the social web, is much lower than the people involved would assume. I'd think people in tech would have a greater awareness, but maybe thats not even a true assumption.
I don't see them coming here en masse to help pave the future for lemmy without any monetary incentives