What if I want to be the person down the line?

Packing a box is skilled labor?

Can't serve as many ads on the website because of ad blockers tho.

Weird. I don't see much of that at all, even on "All". I guess it depends on what instance you join.

Imagine buying a physical book, reading it, and putting it on the bookshelf in your living room, only to have family members and friends borrow it and read it for free.

Well, don't use Facebook to talk about doing things that are illegal. Why do people not use common sense?

A person you fired can't be poached.

From personal use, I can tell you that the featureset is just not there. You can't even sort by followed accounts only, or get chronological updates. It's a hot turd sandwich.

As much as I dislike Meta, the idea that you’d have to pay to present a link to a news article is idiocy. Let the news sites see how their traffic goes without those links.

You can't keep them out, but you can choose not to Federate with them. They can't take over. That's the point of having independent federated servers.

I had that exact conversation at work a few days ago. Someone was insisting that Spaniards are Latino, so I asked them if Spain is in Latin America or Europe. That was the key to them eventually figuring it out.