Probably the end of facebook in the EU someone will come out with a Clone and make it free with no ads
Why? Who would have the infrastructure and funds to create a free and ad-free Facebook clone that can take over the scale of the Facebook userbase? What do you think happens when donations aren’t covering your Lemmy instance by a wide margin?
Doubt
Considering we’re already on an ad-free Reddit clone?
Which clearly isn’t as big and mainstream as Reddit
It’s not the end of Reddit
Reddit was around for a long time as a competitor to Digg before the latter shot itself in the ass. Reddit is still in the ‘fuck around’ phase with a hint of ‘find out’.
Rome wasn’t built in a day.
Digg was nowhere close to as big as reddit is now.
Look at all the dumb shit twitter has done and it still is a gargantuan platform. Like it or not, these platforms aren’t going anywhere.
Very few people actively delete their accounts, but platform eventually die if they can’t attract the next generation (young users). Less than 20% of the youth use Facebook for example, because they don’t want to be in the same platform as their parents watching them, it will be a long painful day death. Same thing can happen to any platform.
Facebook just hit it’s record high of 4 billion monthly active users lol
We’ve got one that is orders of magnitude smaller and has no where near the number or quality of communities as Reddit.
That’s great, but a hundred bucks says they’ll be ad free for those subscribers for 5 years or so and then they will creep back in, then you’ll need a Facebookplus+ subscription to get rid of the ads.
Lol Facebookplus+STierPlatinum+
Life uh… Finds a way.
As if some kind of subscription would make Meta stop with it’s surveillance… this will just be in top.
I mean, it said ad free, not data collection free.
I actually think that’s a good idea, but it would be nice to have some extra features too.
Kinda like YouTube premium
Compared to YouTube, how much do you actually use Facebook?
Youtube doesn’t have real competition because hosting video is much more expensive than text. That’s why Google doesn’t make individual reports about YouTube, it’s most likely not profitable.
They do make individual reports and it is profitable?
It hasn’t been profitable for a long time. Its only recently that it became profitable
Edit: I actually couldn’t find anything about it’s profability and most sources say it’s not really profitable.
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