Meta Has Entered Its Death Spiral
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Meta was hot during its early glory days, but it's starting to look as though it's entered a long, inexorable death spiral.

I have been banging on about this now for at least a couple of years. Much as been written about what is ailing Meta at the moment; yet, strip all that away lies, at its root, a lack of integrity, common decency and humility, and a large dose of cynicism that defines the character of its founder, Mark Zuckerberg. They say a company’s culture starts with the man, or woman, at the top, and so it has come to pass.

From the very beginning, with the original premise of FB being intended to rate women on their sexual desirability, the seeds of its eventual demise were planted. They are now reaping the bitter harvest that he, and he alone, sowed.

  • JeeBaiChow@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    2 个月前

    Really? I would have thought that, had its users also not bought into the self aggrandization, fomo, yolo and other basal human flaws, the platform would have died a stillborn. Yet here we are, chasing the ethereal currency of likes and upvotes for the sake of one upping our peers. If anything, meta exposed the hypocrisy that pervades society in general, and shows us how far we have fallen as a species.

    • ursus262@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      2 个月前

      I don’t disagree with that analysis! What saddens me, though, is just how his cynicism has exploited those very flaws.

      Us humans aren’t perfect; indeed we are broken, all of us. What Zuckerberg did was to exploit our shortcomings for profit and that, I’m afraid, is simply unforgiveable.