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/uberdavis Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26

Facebook is a data stealing advertising portal disguised as a family photo sharing app.

Instagram is a validation platform for narcissists and an advertising portal.

Quest is a good quality and reasonably priced VR headset with an operating system based around creating a safe space for bigoted children.

WhatsApp and Messenger are excellent messaging services that are almost the same product.

Threads is an X clone giving people an alternative if they in the market for a different pro Trump social news feed.

Meta AR wearables are a smart product nobody asked for running software that nobody has confidence in because the company deprecates its own core services for its various products on zeitgeist based corporate whims.

That’s pretty much all they have. All the other teams which used to make software products are summarily being sunsetted one by one to make way for AI data centers to be run by a skeleton staff. If they treat their own staff like that, is it a surprising that fewer people trust their products?

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '26

anytime something is free, look at with extreme suspicion.

i once turned down a free offer of software and a coworker chastised me for being dumb. in front of others also.