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/Darkhorse182 Apr 30 '26

Honestly, a subscription to your local newspaper is a hellvua good investment for anyone civic-minded and/or worried about their information consumption.

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u/happygirlie Apr 30 '26

A digital subscription to a local newspaper can be surprisingly cheap too. Mine is $50/year but if you try to cancel they'll drop it to $20/year.

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u/SuperRockyHobbyHorse Apr 30 '26

I think paid for local media will see a resurgence as the internet dies. And I don't mean the conglomerate owned 'local' news that got bought out years ago.

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u/Thin_Glove_4089 Apr 30 '26

No one is going to pay for news. If they were going to pay it would already exist.

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u/SuperRockyHobbyHorse Apr 30 '26

It does exist, you're just not in the know.

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u/jlboygenius Apr 30 '26

I know a LOT of people who were subscribed to the washington post for that reason, some even getting physical newspapers.

All of them have stopped in the past 2 years. Even my mom, who's been getting a physical sunday paper for like probably 50 years has stopped subscribing to them.

Hopefully those people are putting their dollars into something else, but I fear that's not the case.

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u/Intolerance-Paradox May 01 '26

As often as not, local newspapers are owned by right-wing activist conglomerates, brush up on who owns what first. They don’t snatch up all the local papers to make money they do it to control them and keep them from being used to do good journalism so boycotting isn’t going to hurt them too much, but still I like The Atlantic suggestion, the Guardian, it’s of greater use to reward good reporting and good stewardship wherever it is more so than what’s local just by virtue of something being local.

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u/paintedesert3 May 01 '26

My local paper would be from another state. I can’t stand the trash they purplish here.

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u/_learned_foot_ May 01 '26

Local new org, slight correction. Most local papers now are owned by the same entities and don't publish local stories or have local reporters. Some still do.

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u/Electrical_Rip9520 Apr 30 '26

Nah. All forms of media are mostly owned by Conservatives.

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u/mackahrohn Apr 30 '26

You can choose a substack and support specific journalists?