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This is just marketing speak and wasn't written by Matt.

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"WP Engine sponsors 11 contributors for a total of 40 hours per week across 5 teams."

Doesn't sound like a lot given the money they make. Biblical ROI.

You're welcome.

Cause they're not raking in hundreds of millions of dollars every year, as WPE does, without giving back or adding any value whatsoever.

Here are some big and popular hosts that actually do give back. https://wordpress.org/hosting/

In the future, please inform yourself more before siding with the bad guys.

Nonsense. It goes much deeper than that. WordPress is no little app some dude maintains in his free time. It's a massive powerhouse that powers 40%+ of the whole web. WP Engine can't just leech on it while adding zero value.

This guy clearly doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

> I didn’t know (or really care) about this battle

Then why comment on it?

100%

Tupperware would have kept a lid on the news but they couldn’t find one.

Coca Cola - Can’t beat the feeling

Sugar water - Can’t beat diabetes

I’m sure Systrom regrets his sale every day. Just like Koum does. And Palmer. And everyone else betrayed by Zuck.

+1

Also, Bing serves much better results than Google these days. No joke.

The burden of proof should be on FB, they're the ones hiding the data on this.

>> FB is willing to block news links, which suggests they don't actually profit from them meaningfully.

This is just an assumption and not evidence.

FB just isn't willing to pay for it.

Where's your evidence?

But they are profiting quite heavily from it. Look at all the engagement it drives, especially political content.

Also, how do you know this is "disproportionately to the benefit of the news organizations"? FB also quite heavily profits from the massive engagement this kind of content generates. Content that is often very expensive to produce.

Meta has no issue paying millions for AI voices or billions for their useless Metaverse, but refuses to even pay a penny for news they're heavily profiting from.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-02/meta-is-o...

Yeah, he's just twisting the facts to make a point.

Still no comment on why news corps have to pay for pics and content when FB gets it all for free.

FB should give back more than just clicks. See YouTube.

FB should still not get all these things for free.

Yeah, but Meta wasn’t willing to pay for it.

Why should power-hungry Zuck get everything for free when YouTube, for example, is giving everyone a cut?

I’m not following. What’s been made up for political purposes?

Pro photos cost a lot of money to use and FB just gets them for free. Why?

Also, big news corps have lots of correspondents and offices around the globe, which are expensive too.

But why should FB get this content for free (including the images used)?

How do you know they’re unhappy?

What you don’t consider is that FB is heavily profiting from professionally created content that takes a lot of money to create, with many users just skimming the headlines without ever clicking through.

In short, just another billionaire profiting off of other people’s work without ever paying for it.

Those new AI companies, which are also conducting large-scale theft, are no different and should either seize operation or also start paying their fair share.

Agreed. Plus, if your content is popular, people will just rewrite it with AI.

Do you find screening calls helpful? If possible, I’d always prefer meeting people in person instead - changes everything.

Even if you’re talented and have a lot of experience, they manage to break you during the process.

Agreed. The hiring process is a total nightmare these days.

Broken job boards, A.I-CV-scraping, soulless video interviews, ridiculous noob “tests” for experienced folks, endless interview rounds + bad communication.

It’s really no surprise most tech companies can’t find anyone.

Until you fall victim to it.