I ditched it long before met
I deleted my facebook long ago
I’m glad I never started using it.
yeah because it sucks
Not easy, FB retains the user over 2 weaks until it aprove the elimination of the account, much easier to post porn or Trump vids to force a ban.
I was blocked from posting relevant content to a dead group that was struggling to achieve member interaction. They made me do about 10 captchas to prove I’m not a robot. They blocked my account. It was a huge favor. I don’t miss the site.
On the flip side of that scenario, anyone who was actually interested in what I was posting in that group now has nothing to read. On any given site, I would estimate that more than 90% of the users visiting and reading the content are not interacting. Only a small percent of the users are doing anything to inspire the general population to visit the site. To me it’s idiotic to punish people who are contributing positive and constructive content. By doing so, you are giving hundreds of people one less reason to visit the site.
Users abandoning the platform is the only logical outcome when your algorithms punish/ban/discourage positive & useful interaction.
Yep the youth market is not there, and advertisers are beginning to realise there is more market in the TikTok influencers etc… FB MarketPlace is a reason why many still login to sell / buy stuff so alternatives are needed for that, where a sufficient volume of people can be.
Yeah, I think the MarketPlace is really the only part of the product that keeps people on. As people start leaving, that that will cause vendors to move on as well if alternatives start emerging.
for us it’s Groups and Messenger. marketplace is trash compared to our local monopoly service.
I find making a group on Element or even Slack works great for doing everything you’d do on a Fb group.
i find getting people onto element is impossible. i’ve got two people there after years of trying, and only because they don’t even use phones due to paranoia. and since my hobbies are more conventional, there are no relevant communities for me (or anyone else that i know personally), nor does the current userbase likely have any interest of joining such hobby groups.
i’d love for element to have relevance. but one of the core reasons facebook works is simply because of the pre-existing userbase for every new community started, making it easy to grow (and even outcompete communities on other platforms). if facebook gets knocked down, then the commonality of the fediverse has a bigger chance of people adopting the niche community through the platforms available with other use-cases beside the community you’re trying to start, a lot more so over a chat application that has barely any users at all, especially none in common. and i say this, as someone who basically see matrix as the future and would never recommend anything but matrix for the purpose of chat and community communication.
Even getting people on a Slack group would be a huge improvement in my opinion. I do agree that Fb is still around largely due to network effects. Once people build a community on there, it becomes painful to move it to another platform since you have to get buy in from a critical mass of users in the community.
