thinking about how it might be less of a problem in aggregate to work at the ad company (that would be making surveillance ads regardless, and a moral compass at worst would have you being less efficient than someone without one)
than to be bold and go and do impactful things, in ways that spur competitors to crush the area you've developed into just another market, that they wouldn't have done if you hadn't been building there.
the solution to chat will be subsumed by discord and slack and meet and etc, because they need to capture that attention to keep investors happy. etc etc.
the open alternatives are a mess, and user unfriendly, but having those be able to keep building without being bothered is probably more important than trying to be Matrix But Better, The Company
