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Comment by phatskat

14 hours ago

I can take a brief look at the social damage meta has done and say that, to me, none of those contributions are worth the pain that they have caused.

From the messed up self-image issues they instill on children to the hand they played - either intentionally or through pure ignorance - in ethnic cleansing, I couldn't care less about what they've done in the tech space when those commits are signed in blood.

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tempestn  14 hours ago

That's fine, but the original question asked why people respect devs who work at Meta given they haven't contributed anything. (It didn't explicitly say devs, but when meta employees are getting respect around here, that's who's being discussed.) Your parent reply demonstrated that they have in fact contributed a lot, so there are obviously some accomplished developers working there.

It's certainly possible to see the company as a net negative for society while also recognizing those contributions. One could even argue that that could simultaneously be the case, while the net effects of some particular devs working there are positive (though I could imagine reasonable arguments on both sides of that one).

  • cmoski  13 hours ago

    Contributed anything to society. I doubt anyone in my local community is going to know or care what any of those libraries, frameworks, etc are.

    • tempestn  13 hours ago

      Your local community also probably doesn't know or care a lot about water purification, power distribution, standardized shipping, or the myriad other technologies that make society work.

iugtmkbdfil834  14 hours ago

Zstd is worth a lot of other's people's pain.

My subtle point is that there are a lot of real reasons to dislike Meta. No reason to have hate blind you..