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Meta antitrust trial kicks off in federal court

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iambateman ◴[14 Apr 25 19:45 UTC] No.43685448[source]▶
> Meta could have chosen to compete with then-upstart photo sharing app Instagram in 2012, a senior FTC official said on a call with reporters ahead of the trial, but instead it bought it, and did the same with WhatsApp.

This has a potentially very-chilling effect on acquisitions, which are a major source of liquidity for lots of secondary companies.

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jchw ◴[14 Apr 25 20:05 UTC] No.43685720[source]▶
I'd kill for a chilling effect on acquisitions. Every single fucking time something I like gets acquired, it takes anywhere between a few months to a couple years before it is completely ruined. Maybe if we're lucky, Microsoft will acquire Discord and run it into the ground the way they did with Skype. (Then, we can all go back to IRC, right? ... Right, guys?)
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guestbest ◴[14 Apr 25 20:27 UTC] No.43685947[source]▶
I don’t think we can go back to some things like ircd or mud talkers because they are too “chatty” to users. People like simplified centralized services with on screen discovery in the form of popups. The small internet will have to stay small
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dylan604 ◴[14 Apr 25 21:16 UTC] No.43686423{3}[source]▶
Sounds like someone just hasn't come up with the right app to act as an abstraction layer over the protocol.
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bathtub365 ◴[14 Apr 25 21:37 UTC] No.43686603{4}[source]▶
The other big problem with IRC is that if you have a connection interruption you miss messages.
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1. dylan604 ◴[15 Apr 25 17:25 UTC] No.43695884{5}[source]▶
How is that any different than when you actually use an IRC client? You leave the chat, you leave the chat. If you're at a social gather or kick back or whatevs, if you leave the convo, the rest of the people in the group do not enter a freeze state until your return. The conversation keeps going. There's no history or log for you to scroll to catch up. You just re-enter the conversation. How you handle yourself at that point easily shows if you're nice or an asshole. Just like in IRC.