[pbalau]

You would be amazed about how little comments does an article about FB doing "this tech thing" attracts, vs a generic FB is bad. There are terribly few people that can comment on a tech subject, but everyone and their dog has an opinion about how FB destroys humanity

[stevenjohns]

So what you're saying is that there are more people who can associate with social ethics vs. specialised areas of programming? And this is a revelation?

Perhaps it might help you if you look at it from the perspective that what Facebook has open-sourced here isn't affecting a billion people's privacy and it's not being willfully used as a tool of intimidation and propaganda by governments.

That's just a couple thoughts on why other posts might attract more comments.

[mempko]

People confuse Facebook the org with Facebook the workers. Don't confuse the great work it's workers do with the what management decides.

[chrisbrandow]

That logic doesn’t generalize too well.