Reality Labs isn’t doing well either.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20260430114208/https://www.theverge.com/tech/921089/meta-earnings-q1-2026-user-decline-ai-investments
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One of them was me. I only used facebook for marketplace. Went to renew my listings one day and it asked me for
ageID verification to relist a Pink Floyd boxed set. I then instantly deleted my account.lol. I guess the balance is: how much liability will we dissipate with age verification legislation vs. How many marginal users will we lose, vs how normalised will ID become?
ID circumvention will be mainstream, and by extension so will tech services that don’t try and comply with laws. Identity theft fear alone will drive this even among the “I have nothing to hide” crowd. The early adopters will be the under 18 crowd who will universally as a rule need ID circumvention to even use services, and won’t forget how
Vs how much liability they pick up when they get sued for data breaches resulting in notnjust usernames and passwords but driver’s licences and passports
I’m still mad how they gutted Craigslist just to scam even harder.
I genuinely think the constant spam posts on craigslist is literally a meta op.
Better late than never I guess.
20 million out of how many? Fuck Zuck and his cohorts.
Roughly 3 000 000 000 monthly users. Fuck Zuck, but there’s a still long way to go. So do your part.
I call bullshit on those numbers.
And if they are true, I bet it is not a lot of people in western countries. Maybe Southeast Asia and Africa, where they have convinced people that Facebook is the Internet. But most westerners have stopped that shit, and I imagine those are the more valuable numbers for advertisers. So of course they will lie to inflate their numbers to scam advertisers.
Lemmy moment
how many of those are not used accounts, and bots to appear like anyone actually uses trash
I use FB marketplace a lot, and that shit is plagued with a constant flood of bots. It’s gotta be a significant percentage of their userbase at this point.
Unknown, those are just public numbers and it doesn’t differentiate between bots or people or alts.
when I used to use instagram, I had like 5 accounts, so yea, I should probably check again ig I forgo to delete any of the accounts, They shove down the delete button somewhere deep its so hard to find too.
I always said this about Twitter before I left when Idiot Musk took over.
I had like 12+ accounts. Hell, I still occasionally come across something and like “ok, I forgot I registered that funny Twitter handle.”
Thanks for this! I’ll do my best.
Let’s get those numbers up! 😁
Not nearly enough.
i never had a facebook account or instagram. i am glad people are leaving in droves and sending a message
I have one for shitposting once every two years or so, the profile pic is my cat’s asshole and it is fully verified since 2002
MORE
Good.
I have Facebook because it’s the only way to reach some family, but I rarely visit. Thanks for reminding me to uninstall the app.
Tell everyone you are done with facebook and let grandma know where she has to go to see grandkid pics. She’ll figure it out, she wants those pics.
This is how we break our families of facebook.
Text them, delete the account
Delete the account. If they reach out another way, they matter. If not, you won’t miss them. That’s how I saw it, at least.
at the end of the day … they will call or text message.
definitely get rid of the app! The account is one thing if you log in from a desktop terminal, but the app is where the real money comes for them IIRC.
This, and in the web browser (I hope you use Firefox :) ) use Facebook Container , so that Facebook can access only its sandbox.
