I read “it’s dying” by people on Discord and Reddit all the time, but the numbers prove otherwise. It’s been going up this entire time and sitting over 3 billion MONTHLY ACTIVE USERS!

I feel like the bubble around people on other platforms saying “who uses Facebook anymore lol” is kind of wild given the numbers. Keep in mind these are active users not just abandoned accounts.

  • Lvxferre
    131·
    8 months ago

    It fulfils roles as

    • first place - as some sort of virtual home
    • second place - as you can conduct businesses in it
    • third place - as people congregate in it

    It’s large enough that any amount of enshittification is compensated by network effect.