if they expect you to do a consultant’s work, they should pay you a consultant rate

i don’t know if it will help, but you don’t have to care about achievements even if you haven’t gotten them

b) this is a remarkable incentive to NOT acknowledge criticism. I mean, if I’m Meta and I see this often, what is the incentive to not just force everybody to EULA away as much as possible?

how incredibly fucking dishonest. profit motive is more than enough incentive for them to continue to do what they’ve already been doing for close to two decades.

“don’t boycott exceptionally shitty companies or you’re responsible when they just get worse” is possibly the worst take i’ve seen so far on lemmy.

do you struggle to play peekaboo? how do you not grasp that they’re feeding into the same software ecosystem and your data is being stored in the same database?

not only did they gut the API for actual people, they carved out exceptions for “low volume users” to keep the bots inflating activity

now they’ve literally stolen from the people who paid to support the site in the first place. absolutely shameless

dibs on owl on a broomstick bike

i really don’t want old friends or distant family finding me though

as a consumer product, yeah. but teams is ubiquitous in business and govt.

They’ve done a shockingly good job of funding themselves without selling user info thus far.

to my cynical ass, this just looks like they (and their investors) are more interested in being acquired (with their treasure trove of user data fully exclusive) than in opening up short term revenue streams.

god i love linux forums, some things never change

Terracotta

(super smash bros announcer voice)

IMMINENT LAYOFFS!

i’m holding out for an Index 2 but Valve really doesn’t seem to be in any rush