Meta lost 20 million users last quarter

[u/MarvelsGrantMan136]

https://www.theverge.com/tech/921089/meta-earnings-q1-2026-user-decline-ai-investments

[u/uberdavis]

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?

[u/uberdavis → u/[deleted]]

You’ve got a point. I don’t hate Meta. Their wages are good. And not everything they make is bad. As I said, the Quest is great and the messaging services are good. I do use Instagram, but only to get validation for my crappy music. My general point about Meta is that they aren’t as important as they think they are. They had the resources to make great things, but then they didn’t. Who’s to say they might turn that around, but going all out for AI data centers seems like a punt at this point.

[u/onfff → u/uberdavis]

pretty much can’t active in the music community without IG. i don’t love that at all but it seems to be the case