The pattern at big tech companies seems to be that once they reach a certain size they lose their product focus and the money-focussed people take over. This h

The pattern at big tech companies seems to be that once they reach a certain size they lose their product focus and the money-focussed people take over. This has definitely been the case at Facebook. The social media market was theirs to lose, and if trends in my circles are anything like typical, it seems like that's exactly what is happening. I'd put that down largely to user-hostile decisions that are pushing their users away (Facebook has turned from a place where you could see photos and personally written sharing from family and friends with a few adverts mixed in, to mixture of clickbait and a lot of adverts), and that they didn't need to make as they were incredibly profitable anyway. I suspect Instagram (being owned by Meta) will go this way eventually. But for now they seems to have avoided the worst of this.