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Great news — social media is falling apart::I don't know where to post: there are too many social platforms, and the old giants are dying. The age of social media is splintering.

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

This is probably an overreaction. I do, however, think their growth is reversing and that’s why platforms like Facebook are diversifying rather rapidly. Things like Facebook marketplace and instagram are still hugely popular.

Us that are tech literate tend to not see the giant mass of tech illiterate who will always use the stuff they know aka Facebook.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

growth is reversing

Everyone on Lemmy keeps saying Facebook is dead, but it just hit it's all time high of 4B monthly active users.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

monthly active users

Doesn't that include people who log in once per month to check their messages, scroll down two posts in their feed and log out?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It's still 4B, even if just a fraction interact meaningfully is still a lot... And if it's growing it certainly isn't indicative of death

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, as it always has. It hit it's highest daily active users too.

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