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Those are all acquired services, so the opposite is likely: they were linked together through the number of ugly hacks.



That was a very long time ago though, so I could imagine that there's not much left from the original code base after it was moved onto Meta's infrastructure.


> That was a very long time ago though, so I could imagine that there's not much left from the original code base after it was moved onto Meta's infrastructure.

They only linked them a few years ago, in anticipation of an antitrust battle. They are now unliking them because they have lost/ceded that fight.


Could you elaborate on that?


yea sf companies are definitely known to cleanup their hacks to go to market at any cost w a barely working thing later


isn't that done naturally when they rewrite it the trendy language of the day?




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