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It seems like myspace and digg died pretty fast, so it's definitely possible.

samirelanduk 5y ago
They both had a direct competitor that had been stalking them for years before implosion, and neither were as well established or well funded as Meta/Facebook.
xeromal 5y ago
For sure. That was a pretty different era though! There was still uncertainty about who would win, but Facebook is the Google of social media networks at this point. There is an incredible amount of resistance to uproot them.
- hedora 5y ago
  Is google really that sticky in 2022? Android is bleeding market share, maps and search are undifferentiated. They have an ad network and an office suite, but the network effects of those last two are middling, at best. Sure, there's switching inertia, but there's no "killer app" that consumers lose by leaving the google ecosystem. (Except YouTube, I guess.)
  - otherotherchris 5y ago
    Android is bleeding marketshare to whom? PalmOS? Windows Mobile? Outside of the Great Firewall they dominate everything. Apple's IOS is shrinking globally due to Apple chasing premium customers and pricing itself out of the market. An iPhone SE is $399 after discounting, the average selling price for a smartphone outside the US is about $90. The iPhone 13 is a truly fantastic product, state of the art with an SOC that is years ahead of the competition. I'm truly privileged not only to own one, but to live in a country where the average man on the street can also afford to buy one for every member of his family. But I'm part of a tiny minority.
    - chillacy 5y ago
      In the US at least, iOS has higher uptake than android for the first time ever in younger age cohorts https://fburl.com/2m6hv5lb https://fburl.com/2m6hv5lb I recall a recent article on HN about this
  - jokethrowaway 5y ago
    Google search is not going anywhere and nobody is building a popular android alternative anytime soon.
cyberge99 5y ago
Digg fired the ultimate footgun when they literally reformatted their entire site and ignored feedback. That’s how I found reddit - the great digg exodus, about 15 years ago.
- Doctor_Fegg 5y ago
  Given that Facebook bafflingly renamed their entire company “Meta”, I wouldn’t put a Digg-like move past them.
  - mcv 5y ago
    That rename certainly doesn't inspire much confidence.
  - ryandvm 5y ago
    I think the name change pretty clearly indicates that Facebook, er, Meta agrees with the OP. The Facebook property itself has pretty clearly already reached the high water mark. So they change the parent company name to make the distinction that Meta is not just Facebook, which they're hoping will insulate themselves from one of their products fading away as they bring up new separate social products that solve the generational silo requirement of the market.

They both had a direct competitor that had been stalking them for years before implosion, and neither were as well established or well funded as Meta/Facebook.

xeromal 5y ago

For sure. That was a pretty different era though! There was still uncertainty about who would win, but Facebook is the Google of social media networks at this point. There is an incredible amount of resistance to uproot them.

hedora 5y ago
Is google really that sticky in 2022? Android is bleeding market share, maps and search are undifferentiated. They have an ad network and an office suite, but the network effects of those last two are middling, at best. Sure, there's switching inertia, but there's no "killer app" that consumers lose by leaving the google ecosystem. (Except YouTube, I guess.)
- otherotherchris 5y ago
  Android is bleeding marketshare to whom? PalmOS? Windows Mobile? Outside of the Great Firewall they dominate everything. Apple's IOS is shrinking globally due to Apple chasing premium customers and pricing itself out of the market. An iPhone SE is $399 after discounting, the average selling price for a smartphone outside the US is about $90. The iPhone 13 is a truly fantastic product, state of the art with an SOC that is years ahead of the competition. I'm truly privileged not only to own one, but to live in a country where the average man on the street can also afford to buy one for every member of his family. But I'm part of a tiny minority.
  - chillacy 5y ago
    In the US at least, iOS has higher uptake than android for the first time ever in younger age cohorts https://fburl.com/2m6hv5lb https://fburl.com/2m6hv5lb I recall a recent article on HN about this
- jokethrowaway 5y ago
  Google search is not going anywhere and nobody is building a popular android alternative anytime soon.

cyberge99 5y ago

Digg fired the ultimate footgun when they literally reformatted their entire site and ignored feedback. That’s how I found reddit - the great digg exodus, about 15 years ago.

Doctor_Fegg 5y ago
Given that Facebook bafflingly renamed their entire company “Meta”, I wouldn’t put a Digg-like move past them.
- mcv 5y ago
  That rename certainly doesn't inspire much confidence.
- ryandvm 5y ago
  I think the name change pretty clearly indicates that Facebook, er, Meta agrees with the OP. The Facebook property itself has pretty clearly already reached the high water mark. So they change the parent company name to make the distinction that Meta is not just Facebook, which they're hoping will insulate themselves from one of their products fading away as they bring up new separate social products that solve the generational silo requirement of the market.