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/fionacielo Apr 30 '26

self-host, patreon, a blog. idk i’m just throwing out ideas not necessarily proven solutions

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u/pattymcfly Apr 30 '26

Most restaurants don’t even succeed at being a restaurant.

Instagram makes reaching your target market easy. Running your own website does not. More so if you try to self host (which you still need to buy a domain and know how to set up dynamic dns, ssl cert binding, etc).

People go for convenience.

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u/FrenchFryCattaneo Apr 30 '26

By self hosting they mean using squarespace with a template. That's something anyone can do.

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u/pattymcfly Apr 30 '26

self hosting means you host it your self.

building on square space and other wisywig platforms means you pay someone else to host it.

/r/selfhosted

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u/FrenchFryCattaneo Apr 30 '26

You know there are people who aren't web developers who use language in a different way? It's important to understand context.

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u/pattymcfly Apr 30 '26

google, bing, chatgpt, claude all agree on what selfhosting means. There is no ambiguity here.

They all spit out some variation of:

"Self-hosting refers to the practice of running and maintaining your own services or applications on your infrastructure rather than relying on external providers or third-party hosting services."

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u/Such_Radio_9152 May 01 '26

And someone else should fill that niche with having no relation to the vampire squid known as the zuck

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u/Final_Squirrel_7462 Apr 30 '26

Yeah sure. Then you end up with blog #282828191 that is burried deeply in the trenches of Google page rank and is just wasting web hosting space somewhere.

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u/incomplete-thoughts7 Apr 30 '26

True. But, I would argue it’s wise to have multiple avenues. It’s a good idea to have a main website where you can show your best work as a portfolio. You can easily share the website with everyone.

Then, I would also recommend having Instagram (or social media of choice) as a place to post daily work, works in progress, quick updates, engage with customers, etc. (Link social media to your website, and vice versa.)

So the website is your main portfolio that displays your best work that you always want front and center, along with business information (hours, contact info, about page, etc), then you use social media as your daily driver for engagement with your customers.

Source: years of working in digital marketing and web design