What eventually kills these platforms is "death by thousand cuts". Enshitification, controversies, legal problems will alienate users bit by bit. Competing services will then make some people visit less and less until they stop coming at all.

These platforms are competing for peoples attention/time which is finite resource.

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 3 months ago (3 children)

But in addition to what happened to Yahoo, Meta’s platforms also use the network effect to keep users. Once the tide turns and the network effect is stronger elsewhere the userbase may quickly evaporate, like what happened to MySpace.

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[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

What makes you believe Friendica won’t surpass Facebook?

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 18 points 3 months ago (9 children)

I do not think decentralized social media will ever grab the masses. It can be confusing, which server do I join? Why that one vs this one?

[–] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Sounds more like we would go back to forums.

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[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Because I have never even heard of friendica

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I haven’t heard of Lemmy until the api changes.

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 5 points 3 months ago (14 children)

And Reddit is still in no danger of being overtaken by Lemmy.

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[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 55 points 3 months ago

Let’s hope so.

[–] Bluetreefrog@lemmy.world 50 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 27 points 3 months ago (12 children)

Bigger question. Honest question.

Why are YOU still there???

[–] Delphia@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

Because Facebook killed enthusiast forums for most of my hobbies and everyone migrated to FB. Thats where the knowledge is.

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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 36 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Didn't happen to Twitter. Didn't happen to Reddit. Won't happen to Meta.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2024/03/06/usage-of-elon-musks-x-dropped-30percent-in-the-last-year-study-suggests/

orly?

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

Kinda blows my mind that people think that shit is going to happen over night.. That's hundreds of millions of people..

[–] booly@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The phrase used was not "shifted considerably", it's "mass exodus".

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[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 26 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I mean it kinda has. It wasn't an insta-kill but users have dropped dramatically and it's still dropping

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 months ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] naught101@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Huh, a friendica post in the wild on the Lemmy.world front page. Cool!

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 months ago

You will see it more ;)

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[–] foggy@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Until you provide an easy solution for grandparents to watch their grandkids grow up, meta will have a captive generation and a half.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 7 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Group chats? They've replaced almost everything I used to use Facebook for.

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[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

why prefix the hash tag with Hello? Isn't #QuitMeta better?

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[–] xnx@slrpnk.net 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Theres no app for us artists to post our art and get work other then instagram (or twitter but fuck that).

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Have you heard of Pixelfed?

https://pixelfed.org/how-to-join

[–] xnx@slrpnk.net 6 points 3 months ago

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

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Are you also using Pixelfed?

[–] xnx@slrpnk.net 7 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Are people who offer work for artists using Pixelfed?

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[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Betteridge's Law applies here.

[–] techt@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

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[–] darthelmet@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Are there still any non-boomers left on Facebook?

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 months ago

Not really, but Instagram and WhatsApp are still massive

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