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[–] Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The only difference being Meta and Alphabet are the names of parent companies that Facebook and Google created to own themselves

[–] CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The Meta rebrand was definitely about escaping baggage associated with the name Facebook. Alphabet you're right about though.

[–] ApollosArrow@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

They also wanted to own VR and rebrand it as meta. I don’t think that moved worked out for them.