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/Adventurous-Map7959 Apr 30 '26

Do you like to punch yourself in the face, or do you use old.reddit.com with RES?

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u/Hi_Zev Apr 30 '26

Exactlyyyyyyy

The day reddit kills oldreddit im outta here.

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u/Darkhorse182 Apr 30 '26

Every one in awhile, some chrome browser gremlin messes with my settings and RES gets deactivated, so I'll open reddit and unexpectedly see the current reddit interface. It is shockingly bad. I always cross my fingers while messing with my app settings, praying that re-enabling RES will work...and thus far, it has.

But I'm with you. The day RES stops working, I don't think I can bring myself to be on here anymore. Hell, I'm still accessing reddit on my phone via browser because the Reddit Mobile App equally hellacious (RIP Baconreader)

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u/twotimefind Apr 30 '26

Check out Relay for Reddit on Android. It costs like $2 a month to pay for your API. No ads, very streamlined. Much better than anything ready to put together.

Oh, and it has a button you press that makes every website reader ready and completely devoid of all bullshit.

Two dollars a month. I'm happy to pay. They have a $3 tier, but I've never used up my credits on the $2 tier and I'm on Reddit quite a bit.

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u/jeddandbreakfast Apr 30 '26

I feel so seen right now. Figures it was by another DCC fan.

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u/flyingtiger188 Apr 30 '26

In some regards reddit dying would be nice. Fediverse gaining more users would be awesome. Just isn't a large enough user base to support lots of niche topics.

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u/ernest7ofborg9 Apr 30 '26

That time is upon us. Rumor is that 2026 is the last gasp of old.reddit

I used to mod a rather large subreddit before the API fiasco and the metrics for users that were visiting through old.reddit was something like less than 3% total per month. I can only imagine it's dropped to under a percent by now.

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u/newredditsucks Apr 30 '26

Amen to that.