Meta Kills Facebook Connectivity After Nearly a Decade (lightreading.com) 10
After almost a decade of running the operation, Meta has shut down Facebook Connectivity. From a report: Meta, formerly Facebook, confirmed to Light Reading it would fold what is now called Meta Connectivity into two other groups within the company: "Infrastructure" and "Central Products." The moves make sense considering Meta's "Infrastructure" team handles the company's work in areas such as subsea cabling. The action will not affect Meta's participation in the Telecom Infra Project (TIP), which it helped to found in 2016. That group continues to develop open and disaggregated standards for various telecom technologies.
Headline too long (Score:4, Funny)
"Meta kills Facebook"
You really should have ended there. Learn to end on a high note.
Re:Headline too long[? How about "TANSTAABD"?] (Score:2)
Nice FP, but so far I can only wish your proposed headline were true. Certainly would be a better world without Facebook and Twitter in it. At least not without complete makeovers. And I mean COMPLETE makeovers from square one. Page Zero rewrites of the code and business philosophies, just for beginners.
However, my reaction to the story was TANSTAABD. There Ain't No Such Thing As A Benevolent Dictator. All dictators are malevolent. Some are completely malevolent and some are partially malevolent, but if you
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I have been looking at Mastodon, and having trouble figuring it out, but maybe my problem these years is that I see everything in terms of "But how could this be better?" In the case of Mastodon, I've already starting thinking about various things...
One is the financial model. Of course I see how the #CSB could be modified to direct funds to deserving servers or to support new features for Mastodon. I really think the financial model is a key, and pursuit of maximum profit is the poison that destroys more g
Good start (Score:2)
Have been happy to be disconnected from FB (Score:2)
for a few years...
I won't... (Score:5, Insightful)
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... care about what Facebook Connectivity is, UNLESS YOU TELL ME! Journalist my ass.
Seriously, wtf. Are editors not paid anymore or something?
I see (Score:2)
Meta now lays cables virtually.