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[edgyquant]

You mean after their stock tanked last year? FYI it’s still not back to where it was in August 2021, though it’s finally getting close to that.

[vik0]

The stock market isn't representative of how real world actors are doing at any given moment. I'd recommend reading Nassim Nicholas Taleb. But I'm glad you made money

[cactusplant7374]

I find him impossible to understand. It also doesn't help that he is a bully.

[blensor]

I see some growth since they opened to European users late last year.

It's going to be interesting if they really enable full ActivityPub integration

[saberience]

I don't want to seem overly critical, but why is this comment relevant to an engineering focused article on how Threads was built?

This article isn't FUD and your comment adds nothing to the discussion except setting up a strange strawman to attack for some reason I can't quite fathom.

I don't want to see HN become more like Reddit where comments like this tend to dominate, they don't add to the community and only promote negativity and ill-will between community members.

[stetrain]

This comment follows multiple others in this thread calling Threads a "dead app" and a waste of money and development resources. Which seem equally irrelevant to the topic and incite this kind of discussion.

[rglullis]

Let me try to ask you in the most neutral way possible: how do you feel about being an investor in a company with such a troubled history of privacy violations and one of the key enablers of Surveillance Capitalism?

[surgical_fire]

Nobody should be in the stock market evaluating if companies behave ethically. Most companies do not.

I do not invest in Meta specifically, but I would likely not vouch for any companies in my investment portfolio. It's up to the government and the courts to go after them, not me with a paltry few thousand dollars worth of shares.

[rapsey]

You can find moral arguments against investing in practically any company. At the end of the day your stance makes no actual difference. The only thing you are doing is missing out. If you are so moral, spend effort into something more meaningful instead of making yourself poorer.

[cactusplant7374]

Investing and not investing in the company mean exactly the same thing. Unless FB issues more shares you aren't buying shares from the company. You're buying from someone else.