[ballon_monkey]

Facebook would never have become what it is today if Zuck had lost control of the voting. It would have been sold 10 times over and prob not exist today. I suspect the same could be said for Mask and his businesses.

[ulfw]

Or maybe Facebook would still be a valuable destination and instagram still a great product for sharing photos instead of god knows what Zuckerberg has done to them now.

instagram being a cheap tiktok clone is frankly an insult.

[MASNeo]

Instagram is stealing my wife. Literally, the mental rot it inspires from echo chambers makes sensible human conversation sadly very hard.

[georgeburdell]

Facebook IPOd in 2012, after it was already used by hundreds of millions of people, and after it bought Instagram

[ballon_monkey]

When FB was private Zuck had 57% of class B voting right stock. He retained this on IPO. My point is, if he did not have control over voting, before/after IPO, FB/Meta would not be where it is today. He prevented Ads being on FB for many years operating at a loss to grow FB while shareholders complained wanting to shove Ads all over the place.

[te_chris]

“What it is today”.

Oh, glad we managed to not miss out on the 2-sided ai slop panopticon

[notfromhere]

You’re saying this as if that wouldn’t have been a positive outcome

[mensetmanusman]

The outcome would have been like phones were before the iPhone. NFL installed on every device.