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Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too (www.theverge.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 12 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Yeah, but I mean there's "you shouldn't use this because Meta is bad" and then there's "no one wants to use this because it is, on a fundamental level, an incredibly stupid idea and I can't believe anyone thought this would ever catch on."

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Facebook itself sucks now. It is not a feed of your contacts' posts, it's all groups, I have no control over that feed, unless I look up each friend individually I only get to see what they choose to show me, which is maybe one every 10 listings on the feed. It's super glitchy, especially from my phone, posts just disappear with no trace, I am unable to use it in a dozen ways that they never bothered to fix. It's getting worse as well. Total garbage.

    And they are losing critical mass, as they suck more people leave, it's mostly the older people that are still using it all the time that I've seen. We need a fediverse alternative, hopefully where it can interact with other forums on the fediverse like lemmy and mastadon.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I think you might need a reality check. Facebook has 3 b-b-billion monthly active users. It's the most used social media platform in the world, by a large margin. Followed in second way behind by Instagram, Meta's other social platform. So it doesn't suck enough for those people to quit using it.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Yeah I guess they are no where near losing critical mass, a lot of people are leaving though, and even more are spending way less time on there.

    Also, a great share of those monthly users will be inauthentic, half of all accounts online are influence agent accounts, bots and such.

    Still it's a lot of people on it. I talk to a lot of people that hate it now too, many that have left, or like me just keep it for marketplace. Or like mushroom id groups, or repair groups it is great for that. But with the lack of a viable alternative with critical mass they are under no pressure to get better.

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