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'Everyone is unhappy': Meta employees describe a grim environment as the company reportedly prepares to axe roughly 8,000 workers (www.aol.com)
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[–] Goudewup@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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...

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] architect@thelemmy.club 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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?

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago

I don't think they realize how easy it is to just walk away.

I was stuck on that treadmill for years before I realized

[–] Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] mattyroses@lemmy.today 2 points 6 hours ago

Meta was making Threads federate, so they know at least.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah of the people in techI've spoken to about the fediverse, even the ones that did know only had a surface level understanding, and didn't seem to consider it something that was for them for whatever reason.

[–] Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, i've had a similar experience. Even with those friends running their own servers seem to have a lack of awareness. Considering the strength of the Linux and Foss communities here i'm surprised more information hasn't crossed over into other forums.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 points 7 hours ago

Is it just because we stop using the commercial platforms when we switch to fedi? I assumed most people were dual users though