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.
The enshitification talk at defcon recently really did a great job of illustrating how Facebook leveraged competitors’ API’s/network effect then pulled the ladder up behind them through lobbying.