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Chris Trottier

Meta just laid off 10,000 people.

This follows 11,000 job cuts back in November—now totalling 21,000 people within a year.

Additionally, 5,000 jobs will now go unfilled.

While I heavily dislike Meta and everything it stands for, it gives me no pleasure when people lose their livelihoods.

While Twitter's difficulties gets more press, Meta's disarray is worth paying attention to—especially since they hope to eventually join the Fediverse.

apnews.com/article/meta-facebo

@fediversenews
14 Mar 2023 at 17:29 | Open on mastodon.social
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Chris Trottier

@TruthSandwich @fediversenews ActivityPub is an open protocol. Your server may choose to block them, but that doesn't change that ActivityPub is what it is.

14 Mar 2023 at 17:55 | Open on mastodon.social
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@atomicpoet @fediversenews

People did not do this much hand-wringing over the STASI losing their jobs.

"Jobs jobs jobs" 🕵️​

Those ppl are very smart. They know what they were doing.

14 Mar 2023 at 18:09 | Open on infosec.exchange
Chris Trottier

@tasket @fediversenews Hand-wringing? No.

Acknowledging the nature of capitalism? Yes.

14 Mar 2023 at 18:13 | Open on mastodon.social
Matt - Georgia

@atomicpoet @fediversenews cutting their workforce while they are planning a new income stream centered on offering more user support for people who will pay them. Hmmm... 🙄

14 Mar 2023 at 18:29 | Open on retro.pizza
Mike McCue

@atomicpoet @fediversenews I think this likely means they will move a lot faster and a lot more decisively on the things they actually decide to do. Will be interesting to see if ActivityPub remains something they will focus on or not. Only the most critical projects will get their attention now.

14 Mar 2023 at 18:43 | Open on flipboard.social
Steaknchips

@atomicpoet @fediversenews
The Federal Reserve will be happy. Don’t they want two million out of work before they stop raising rates? 🙄

14 Mar 2023 at 19:38 | Open on mastodon.world
kit
Mike 🍁

@atomicpoet @fediversenews Supposedly, last fall the total employee count was about 87,000. So significant cuts.

16 Mar 2023 at 3:36 | Open on ottawa.place
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