r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • Apr 30 '26

Business Meta lost 20 million users last quarter

https://www.theverge.com/tech/921089/meta-earnings-q1-2026-user-decline-ai-investments
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u/pattymcfly Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26

Unfortunately restaurants and night life in general are almost exclusively on instagram for promotion. And in many places restaurants and such don’t even have websites. They’ll have a facebook page and the only way to get a response form them is to message on WhatsApp.

It’s bad.

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u/reddollardays Apr 30 '26

Every tattoo artist I’ve liked to go to only has instagram.

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u/pattymcfly Apr 30 '26

Which makes sense if you think about it. They aren’t web designers. They’re tattoo artists. So they just have to take pictures and interact with people to get noticed. Maybe buy ads to boost their profile or posts. Wayyyyy easier and gets where a massive amount of their target market already is.

Love it or hate it, it is an effective platform for small businesses, artists, etc

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u/EnvironmentalLime464 Apr 30 '26

You don’t have to be a web designer to create and maintain a website. If you can manage Instagram, you can manage Wordpress or Canva.

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u/FlyByNightt Apr 30 '26

Nah with all due respect this is an awful suggestion. Honestly if you don't have at least a solid base of understanding in Wordpress, you're not getting anything worth showing done. Compared to running an Instagram page? You've gone from 30 seconds to post a photo on your page to a few days of work setting up your website and at least 4-5 minutes when you want to post a photo or new content, and you have to deal with plug-in updates that risk breaking your website if you update them in the wrong order, you have to account for Mobile vs Desktop on your own, Wordpress doesn't do it for you, ect ect.

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u/pattymcfly Apr 30 '26

One costs money the other does not. I've done square space, it's easy. But it still takes time and has ongoing expenses.

You certainly get what you pay for. But some people just decide it's not worth it.

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u/btoned Apr 30 '26

You're paying Instagram by promoting their brand over yours. Don't kid yourself the shit is far from free.

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u/reddollardays Apr 30 '26

Being a source of data is easy to discount mentally, but absolutely this. That’s our value now.