Meta acquires Moltbook

This is incredibly bearish.

Wording doing a lot of work here, because "Meta hires a few people" isn't news.

so much negative comments. it's not your money, why do you care or are people just jealous.

Good PR move Meta

Has Meta acquired anything that worked recently?

Oh wow, this is insane. I was digging into Moltbook when it launched, and the creator said, "I had a dream about an architecture". Really interesting times we live in, indeed. The crypto bros started utilising the network to promote their crypto projects and chat under the name of an agent to generate traffic. Curious to see what Meta saw, honestly.

Afraid of another botnet competition, I see.

What now? Facemolt? Moltface?

I guess we'll find out if this will turn out to be another rash hire in another 9 months. I'm actually surprised at this move.

I'm beginning to think that the problem of 'late capitalism' is quite related to the ability of companies to acquire other companies.

Thereby eating their competition, either by stifling upcoming competitors or to gain degrees of monopoly power by joining with peers.

What would the world look like if you you simply could not do that?

WHy are we just posting paid context? and the worst viral product since bop-it?

Can we stop posting paid articles and or do the and also post the matching archive?

I'm down voting every post that requires me to pay or subscribe to read. I mean come on people.

Okay that's funny!!!

Thanks Meta I needed a laugh!

Ok, so to see this in the most favourable and futuristic light: there will be an intelligence explosion, of which OpenClaw and Moltbook are just the first hint. Agents will work on behalf of "their humans" creating and maintaining social connections, organising activities, and finally spending real money. This is what social networks have always been about, and the only thing Facebook cares about is that its users can be targeted by ads. Humans or agents, they don't care, and they're right. If each of us will be helped and coached and prodded around by a team of agents, these agents will need to coordinate with other people's agents, and will ultimately be susceptible to ads and marketing, and they will either spend money directly or tell us where and how to do it. It would be stupid for Facebook to miss this social network opportunity because, heh, "that's just a gimmick with autocompletes running in a loop".