Not just their business practices, but also just the oculus purchase.
I already had an oculus. I was told (via press release) that I wouldn't have any issues with not having a Facebook account…only for them to turn around a little while later and require a Facebook login.
This describes what I want - being able to have relatively blank walls/spaces that light up and fill up with content when you're wearing the headset.
It's social media in the technical definition - it's a place to view media, both entertainment and news, with commentary, groups, the ability to follow someone, etc. Which makes it social.
But yeah, it's not quite like Facebook/Instagram/LinkedIn. A little bit like Twitter though.
Its literally colonizing though. It's sending their citizens to build settlements in areas that do not belong to them.
My concern is that if you can drop tens of billions of dollars on a single acquisition, what’s to stop you from spending “just” one billion to manipulate the situation to put your target in a vulnerable situation?
Our entire society is set up to wring out anyone who is unfortunate enough to find themselves buying anything.
And as resources get squeezed, more and more people are trying to claw at smaller and smaller pieces of the overall economic pie.
The breaking point will be catastrophic.
Honestly, I agree with the antiboomer sentiment.
But at the same time, it is annoying when you’ve had an included service for decades that will now be worse or cost money.
There’s a great documentary covering the protests from within the military called “Sir, No! Sir”
It’s not a great replacement for a forum experience, a “I need to search for an answer to a specific question” experience, or anything like that.
But for the sense of community that people tended to identify with their favorite subs? I think it’s a pretty solid platform. Still has all the same issues regarding any centralized service run by a company, but that’s going to be the case for the vast majority of replacements until there’s a major paradigm shift across the world.
Almost across the board, new technology is used to spread two things: religious dogma and porn.
And the farmer's almanac, but mostly the Bible and porn.