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ireneista
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We don't want to put a lot of dark topics here on Cohost, but the tech labor movement is a central thing for us personally that we have done a ton of activism around. So we're sharing this article which - in our view, correctly - identifies labor rights as a motivator behind the recent layoffs.

By the way, we're not going to do long stream of consciousness technical threads like yesterday's again. While it's always hard to guess how people feel and we only got a small amount of feedback, we think it was probably seriously inconvenient for people. Although we would much rather share that kind of stuff here on Cohost if the platform were good at it, the platform is not good at it. We'll keep it to Mastodon going forward. Sorry about that.


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I don't have anything to say about the situation in the tech industry other than this make me angry.

As for the technical thread, I don't think an apology is needed. I did not understand a word of it, but it is always fun to see someone being excited about something and making many post about it. I want to see more of it.

well! thank you for your votes <3 that's extremely flattering and we're relieved that there were people enjoying it :)

we just can't justify making people's feeds unusable all day for something they MIGHT want, though...

I'm glad that someone is making the connections, here: All the economic indicators look great, except if you ask Big Tech, who have unilaterally declared that we're in the middle of collapse.

Granted, this is an industry that is historically terrible at analyzing things (see "we'd like to have a more diverse staff, but also see no reason to change our perfect recruiting pipeline"), but the timing always spoke to something more specific.