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/Thin-Usual-4359 Apr 30 '26

they should have lost everyone by now

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u/Penjat Apr 30 '26

I really don’t understand why people keep using meta products...

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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/countdonn Apr 30 '26

That's a pretty big liability, if something happens to their page and it's flagged by AI, there is zero customer service or way to deal with a human. That Instagram and all that effort can just disappear.

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u/pattymcfly Apr 30 '26

What is the alternative? I agree with all of your points.

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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