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Facebook's survival (and MySpace's before them) is predicated on continued advertising revenue. Continued advertising revenue is predicated on user count and e
by ethbr0 4y ago
Facebook's survival (and MySpace's before them) is predicated on continued advertising revenue.
Continued advertising revenue is predicated on user count and eyeball time.
Consequently, the only thing that really kills Facebook is if users abandon the platform.
And there isn't really a Mastodon-equivalent alternative for FB's feature set. Or even assurance that there could be (i.e. features that require centralization or expensive compute).
- croes 4y agoMyspace is still alive
- AnotherGoodName 4y agoNot really though. They even lost all user accounts before a certain date recently so there's not even much of a Ship of Theseus argument it's the same apart from the name.
- BlueTemplar 4y agoWhat's wrong with Diaspora ? (As someone that never used it.) (P.S.: I haven't used Facebook in like half a decade either.)