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giganticroboticpenguin
Fecesbook hasn't sold to buyers. Zuck still owns controlling interest. He has bought other brands to bring more users under Meta umbrella.
YangKoete
Tumblr.
Gibleteousjack
Twitter? Formerly known as X?
dingofdong
Facebook didn't get "bought" though? They're a homegrown bunch of fashy corpo oligarchs, Zuck's been there the whole time
noWhiteHorseHereJustBatturuPrinsu
I'm pretty sure we, the consumer, killed myspace by all massively joining facebook instead. Not just myspace though, also the other smaller platforms that existed. It was our own stupidity that gave facebook all that power. After that exodus myspace was abandoned and cheap so then a buyer gobbled it up.
poscduke
Mark Zuckerburg has maintained an overwhelming control of Facebooks voting shares and hasn't been bought by a corporation, Twitter was bought by a crazy and rich nazi, not a corporation as well so I don't get what this is trying to say
geking
Soooo... stupid question. Media lab bought imgur like 4 years ago. Why the sudden and intense umbrage? What crummy thing did media lab do this time?
Peden1
Fuck corporate influence... We can resist them! Ask Siri to join my movement /s
genericannie350
I wish we could all go back to Myspace.
glovelyday
Toqom
I love how they buy them then try their hardest to lie about their usage going up. On inauguration day Facebook lost like 20 million users seeing Zuckerberg behind Trump. 2 weeks later they claimed they had recovered from that. Absolutely fraud, there was no reason for anyone to join Facebook 2 weeks later, it's just when they had those users turned into bots. The majority of activity on Facebook is fake to engage the few people who pop in to check on stuff. That's why the meta verse was dead
suiseiseki
Scorched earth may incentivize them to at least not be total malicious douche bags.
WienerBeener
You couldn't pay them not to be total malicious douche bags.
djangojazz
Facebook was basically begging people to quit. No one took it over it just aged like cheese in the sun.
NewtGinGrinch
More like Paid-to-Post trolls. The owners and legit users suffer and get herded off like cats. The people doing this hate the community.
michaelfire
Imgur brass had to know. "Since 2018, Medialab has built an unlikely empire by acquiring tired flash-in-the-pan apps and websites and plastering them with ads.Since 2018, Medialab has built an unlikely empire by acquiring tired flash-in-the-pan apps and websites and plastering them with ads. Are Imgur execs acting like they're victims? "If you don't pay a fee...you're the product". https://www.forbes.com.au/news/innovation/medialab-bought-up-imgur-genius-and-amino-why-are-they-suing/
IBroughtASpareDrainpipe
Errrr, corporate buyers never purchased Facebook.
Lon6CartoonTraveler
Yes, Fb effed themselves up!
IBroughtASpareDrainpipe
Zucker the fucker still owns it.
MechKelly
He also founded it. He didn't buy it.
SwiftyGuy
Yeah, but no one ever bought him out.
IhopeUgetwhatUvoted4
I am not on facebook or twitter but I know they are still alive and well. Imgur is probably about to myspace.
vissago
'alive and well'? you definitely arent on either
IhopeUgetwhatUvoted4
X had almost 4 billion visits in August 8th most visited in the world. FB almost 10 billion 3rd in the world. Yeah.. I am not on either.
spronkfu
How many of those hits and visits were from ai or bots trawling through archive? What would actual engagement numbers be if you cut the inflation out? Is it really that unrealistic to point out that fb and x are suffocating in their own walled gardens?
PleaseRespectMyAsshole
Facebook is nothing but ads. I peaked the other day and it was horrible.
IhopeUgetwhatUvoted4
They are the #3 and #8 most visited websites. Far from dead.
PleaseRespectMyAsshole
I never said it was dead, just that it was nothing but ads.
toolzgalore2
More like private equity
ArcherPointingFromTheComments
The very definition of corporate buyers. A business can opt to file under one of many different corporate statuses for tax reasons. Also, and this is just a semantic bit of pedantic wankery, purchasing corporations, by default, makes them corporate buyers.
vissago
they all ipoed
toolzgalore2
Imgur is not publicly traded
vissago
imgur is not its own company. its a brand owned by medialab, which is essentially private equity
DoorTable
You don't know what IPO means. Only Facebook and Twitter ever IPOed out of those four companies.
toolzgalore2
See; my first comment