alt Hacker NewsIt seems like every time Meta (Facebook) hits the front page of Hacker News it's for something negative.
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"Facebook behaves like a hostile foreign government" someone said and I can't unsee that
Well yes, what is their positive contribution to society?
Nah, some occasions were for React, React Native, Buck, Ollama, Rust adoption.
Now it may be, some consider those negatives as well.
It's a company that actively makes people's life worse for profit.
From slightly lower on the page than this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50448432
Predictably, fewer upvotes. HN users (and probably humans in general) like to vote up stories that reinforce their worldview.
I think some of the Muse releases have made front page recently (positive IMO).
Yea, they’re one of the most harmful companies to ever exist, beats me why they have such negative press all the time.
And if it’s a fine, it’s never in the billions…as usual, a slap on the wrist.
Agree, but people are generally more attracted to hearing negative news.
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/why-is-there-no-go...
But Meta is Meta, fr.
lol. Given that they're an unrepentant evil company who does nothing positive this seems on brand?
I am not saying this is the case here but it's possible that those are much more likely to be upvoted(and hence submitted).
This does seem to happen a lot with SpaceX and Tesla since about 4 years. There is no thread on Starship's latest launch yesterday, but the false news claiming that Hawaiian airspace was shutdown due to Starship debris rocketed up to #2 on the front page.
It's a tax
HN is a small echo chamber of mostly tech/engineering folk. Move to a finance echo chamber and the focus is on Meta as a money printer. Attention being a currency. Meta therefore looks almost like a Central Bank of the Attention Economy. Using the word "almost" cause there are other Central Banks like Google, TikTok etc
HN itself is very negative. It shifted from a positive tech/startup focus aggregator to shifting to reddit levels of negativity and hate that drives outrage and anger. I often leave HN less happy than when I first opened it up. I don't want to read reddit levels of hate and destruction, I just wanted to read tech news and learn new things