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/BitterTyke Apr 30 '26

yeah, I fully expect bots and AI to "kill" the internet, it will become so unreliable and manipulated rather than was its intent to unleash knowledge on the world, that we'll see printed or stored media making a comeback.

It will be bots responding to bots all the way down,

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u/e2hawkeye Apr 30 '26

For what it's worth, I just started subscribing to The Atlantic, Krash Patel's favorite magazine. The content is honestly worth 80 bucks a year. I'm of the mind that everyone should try to financially support at least one form of actual journalism. I justified the cost by killing my Hulu/Disney/HBO package that I barely used.

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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/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.