Facebook in some countries is a necessity because it acts like The Everything website. it's like the WeChat of southeast Asia
this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2025
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If Twitter hasn't had a mass exodus I'm not holding it hope for any other social media. The fact of the matter is the majority of the public just don't care.
Apparently a bunch of blue checks got really pissed about, of all things, Elon faking his Path of Exile 2 cred. I'm annoyed that that's what it took for some people to finally realize he's a piece of shit, but you know what, doing the right thing for a stupid reason is still doing the right thing. Regardless who knows if it'll result in any large number of people leaving. All I know is that it blew up on Reddit, according to this news here which I recommend you watch:
I mean it kinda has. It wasn't an insta-kill but users have dropped dramatically and it's still dropping
https://www.demandsage.com/twitter-statistics/
Rebranded as “X” in July 2023 under Elon Musk’s leadership, the platform saw a 15% drop in monthly active users soon after. Despite this, with 611 million monthly active users...
"X" is doing just fine.
Depends on who is leaving, I'd say. The biggest draw to Twitter, from my outside perspective anyway, is news. Headlines, sure, but especially live, on the ground coverage.
If news orgs quit X, that'll be a big blow. Some left already, but I can't remember who it was off the top of my head.
But if breaking news, like protesters posting updates live, start coming majority from somewhere other than X (most likely Bluesky at this point), that will really signal the beginning of the end for Xs relevancy.
Just my $.02, to be taken with a large grain of salt.
Yes, if that were to happen it would be a big blow. It hasn't happened despite all the things, so I'm not holding my breath.
Yeah, that's fair.
My guess is X will always be around, but a best case scenario is it dwindles in relevance and it becomes just another social media site, instead of the relative giant it is. The good news is Twitter was always an energetic but comparatively small social media network (relative to Facebook and Instagram). Really all it needs to fade into irrelevancy is the loss of those driver accounts that feed the rest of the site.
Fingers crossed, I guess.
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Are there still any non-boomers left on Facebook?
Yes, loads. It's very useful for non-anonymous groups + events.
Not really, but Instagram and WhatsApp are still massive
I'm not really ON facebook. But way too many of my friends use it as a way to send invites to events. I literally just pop in every other week to check notifications and see if anybody invited me to anything. It's kind of infuriating how no other method makes it so easy to just invite 20 people somewhere.
The fediverse doesn't have a decent calendar/invite solution does it?
Huh, a friendica post in the wild on the Lemmy.world front page. Cool!
You will see it more ;)
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Theres no app for us artists to post our art and get work other then instagram (or twitter but fuck that).
Have you heard of Pixelfed?
Yea i used it for a while a year it two ago and figured its not worth my time since it doesnt have a userbase or any thing to attract people to move to it
See my comment here https://slrpnk.net/comment/13170801
Are you also using Pixelfed?
No, just like everybody else who isnt using it 😅 its stillll not on the app store after like 6 years and now the dev is working on Loops. Also theres no decent discovery with only the single chronological feed. Bluesky and an instagram clone using the at protocol will be easier for us to migrate to because feeds help discovery a ton.
There’s an official app for Pixelfed on iOS and Android.
Not on the official App Store tho there’s been an app for years
Edit: i guess they just launched on the App Store so it’s not available to all countries yet?
Are people who offer work for artists using Pixelfed?
No idea, but if there’s no one there to offer work to…
Didn't happen to Twitter. Didn't happen to Reddit. Won't happen to Meta.
It's already happened to Facebook. And it's happening to Twitter. And Reddit. This stuff takes time, but the character and feel of each service has shifted considerably.
The phrase used was not "shifted considerably", it's "mass exodus".
The mass exodus from the Facebook platform has already happened. The others are in progress.
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Kinda blows my mind that people think that shit is going to happen over night.. That's hundreds of millions of people..
I wish, but I doubt it will be.
It will die when there is an alternative app that competes with marketplace. That + messenger keep most people there. Signal (or whatsapp which while meta, isn't tied to fb account)'already can replace messenger.
That is simply the truth. Here is Belgium we have an app called 2dehands which is very prolific and have a way better interface and experience than marketplace (even though it is nowhere near perfect or great).
Marketplace is definitely completely secondary to 2dehands in the Flemish part. Brussels still uses marketplace a lot, but literally all marketplace needs in order to slowly die off is competition but the 2nd hand market is not a lucrative app space with no real funding opportunities outside of data sale so nobody does it.
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I've noticed a significant change in my Facebook feed recently. It's almost all content creator content now, which I'm taking as a sign that my network is no longer posting there.
Bigger question. Honest question.
Why are YOU still there???
Y'all would be surprised how many Facebook users there are outside of the west. In my home country of Vietnam Facebook is like Twitter+Reddit+more. It's the most popular social media app. Everyone is on Facebook. The government posts news on Facebook, academic institutions post news on Facebook. Everyone posts official news on Facebook. Hobbyist discussion happens on Facebook. Buying and selling stuff - also Facebook. Wanna watch short form/long form content? Also Facebook. Facebook Messenger is also the second most popular form of communication. But it is to us what iMessage is to Americans. If you're not on Messenger, fat chance nobody will talk to you. There's Zalo which is technically in first place but Zalo is where the Vietnamese government gets to exert its control and it's mostly to conduct business and talk to boomers. It's that bad. Facebook is also very popular in other Asian countries like India, Indonesia, Thailand and the Phillipines, although I'm not sure to what degree.
Because Facebook killed enthusiast forums for most of my hobbies and everyone migrated to FB. Thats where the knowledge is.
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