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Meta Is Dying. It’s About Time. (www.nytimes.com)
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Increasingly, Meta has been using debt to fuel its spending, amassing $59 billion in long-term debt on its balance sheet by the end of 2025, double the prior year’s total. And that doesn’t count the “aggressive” accounting it has used to keep the cost of a $27 billion Louisiana data center off its books. “The spending growth looks increasingly unsustainable,” The Wall Street Journal’s “Heard on the Street” columnist Asa Fitch wrote this week.

Now, as the company careens from one staggeringly expensive misadventure to another, its cash-cow core business is starting to wear out. Last quarter, the number of daily active users across its properties declined for the first time to 3.56 billion from 3.58 billion.

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[–] Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf 4 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

It's social media. You're putting yourself in a bubble. Humans never evolved for this kind of communication and it's making us all sick.

[–] Mountainaire@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Historically, "social media" meant non-anonymous social connections in which nearly everyone knew everyone's real names; in contrast, Reddit or Reddit-like networks like Lemmy were called "content aggregators."

We're also not in a bubble (what bubble anyway, of anticapitalism?) if we're diversifying our exposure to different sides. The most important aspect is that Lemmy instances seem to be among the more bot-free forums, whereas FB is completely overrun by "AI" spewing lies and fake studies, for example.

I would argue that it only makes you "sick" (what kind of sickness, anyway?) if this is your primary means of your socializing. Message boards involving strangers utilized in one's life in this way should only be a temporary lifeline while you work to gradually build/rebuild a habit of regular, in-person contact. As long as you're diligently striving towards that, it's likely a (perhaps small) net positive. Social media, content aggregators, forums, message boards, etc. are only a net negative if they're your primary approach to voluntary contact with people.

[–] U7826391786239@piefed.zip 2 points 15 hours ago

interesting article from ~20 years ago (even before literally everyone was on social media) about this topic

https://www.cracked.com/article_15231_7-reasons-21st-century-making-you-miserable.html