This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Good to see people may finally be waking up to the idea that these companies are trash.
That's awesome. Facebook is a freaking plague.
This fucking site, I swear... I want to delete my account. But my account is blocked. I never used Facebook on another device than my PC, never on mobile. And to unlock my account to delete it, I have to... log in from another device. No other way. I tried everything, and the best is, their fucking customer centre is a useless chatbot. I hate this.
I'm in the same boat. I even tried emailing them my license. There is nothing I can do delete my account from highschool.
Just start posting a bunch of political content they don't agree with to get your account deleted.
I wonder if that metric counted users active in their comments plugin. They sunset that comments plugin around Jan or Feb ‘26
I'm not surprised honestly, their stuff is getting boring and there are far better platforms this time. I hope they do something about their whole whatever..
I hope they don't and finally die
It’s probably because Israel was getting bombed last month and their bots were temporarily unavailable.
They oughta shut it down completely, let reddit take up the slack
You had our support in the first half
So, less bots?
20 million actual users or 20 million ai bots.
I'd assume the bot count is increasing, not decreasing.
We feed meta billions of dollars and all our data, watch out what they are going to do, they already approached the fediverse and tried to make their move there.
I don't understand. Did they try to buy Lemmy?
No, they hosted their own instance... or at least that is what i understand
Old people are dying
I'm so old I remember when Facebork was just for young people.
I'm so old I remember when Facebook didn't exist :) Or Zuck, in fact.
Shit, I remember when Nixon resigned. I also remember thinking that Nixon was as bad as Republicans could ever get.
same. I keep thinking "it can't get worse than this," and republicans say: "Hold my beer."
They are reporting "family daily active users" and I assume that this "family" means all of their apps. They are reporting 3.56 billion DAU, but Whatsapp alone has 3.3 billion users according to some sources. So we really do not know how Facebook or Instagram are doing from those numbers - and it does make sense that user numbers are dropping when Russia is restricting access to WhatsApp & Co and Iran is switching off its internet.
What is "Meta" here?
Facrbook?
Instagram?
WhatsApp?
Oculus?
?????
All of the above?
All Meta-owned services, since it's a meta report.
Still almost half the planet, though. Way too much.
Not enough.
Seriously, how are there still so many people on meta? What percentage are bots is the real question 🤷♂️
Seriously, how are there still so many people on meta?
Social networks become part of people life, they use them to talk to relatives, friends and to build communities. Once social networks started to become popular, facebook with the help of governments, rich people and other corporations managed to become the biggest platform, they got so big that they turned into a phone book where everyone was in. Meta used the billions we feed them, our data and their popularity to build/buy other social networks and tools people are now hooked up. In italy whatsapp replaced mails and it's what most people are using to talk with each other.
Boomers are set in their ways
Every one one of my friends and family use it daily.
And a huuuuuge sell is marketplace. Literally no one touches Craigslist anymore. So if you wanna buy used from people, you literally need marketplace.
Lol you do not need fb marketplace. Thrift stores, yard sales and flea markets are great for furniture. For everything else there's eBay. I've never bought anything on fb marketplace and I almost always buy used stuff.
Stop making flimsy excuses. Stop giving this evil company your money.
I used craigslist just last week, but yea marketplace is a big part of facebooks market reliance
There are parts of the world where the Facebook app basically is the Internet. Places where most people dont own a laptop, but everyone has a cell phone and phone service comes bundled with discounted Facebook data. Their hold goes way beyond social networking to, local businesses and even government services dont have webpages, they have Facebook pages only. Every game people play runs through Facebook, and all their saves are locked up with them. Every video people post or watch runs through Facebook and its hyper localized algorithm. It would take generations to displace them.
how are there still so many people on meta?
People in developing countries have Facebook as their default internet destination, sometimes it is even the internet encapsulated, as it literally combines almost all the online services that are normally separate; they go there for their daily entertainment, news, and socializing fix.
Botbook
It's almost like it really fucking sucks.
It’s fun being part of that number.
I deleted my Facebook in 2013, before it was cool. 😛
It was always cool to avoid facebook. Yes I AM a myspace loyalist who's still pissed 20+ years later!
I'm also still pissed napster died!
They probably went to other social media platforms. Not really a win.
That depends on the platform. There are things I want from social media in my life. Facebook isn't giving me that anymore so I mostly left. I still miss the gap in my life from not knowing what my old/distant friends and family are doing (closer friends/family I call)
Funny enough, my friends rarely post or I’m not interested in them going out to whatever bar and posted selfies. So keeping up with them is the least interesting aspect of facebook. It’s sort of replaced some of the hobby group forums I used to be a part of. If you can find well moderated groups it’s pretty decent. Just hafta viciously hide ads and FB becomes reasonable to use.
