Meta Risks Mass Exodus: Is #HelloQuitMeta the Next Viral Movement?

I wish, but I doubt it will be.

Something eventually will be. Meta will not last forever.
This one? Nah, probably not. Meta is undoubtedly going to censor, suppress, hide, and deprioritize posts about this. But someday it will.
- Yahoo just gradually died as people started slowly abandoning it.
  The same can happen to Facebook, but it won’t die with a bang.
- What makes you believe Friendica won’t surpass Facebook?
It will die when there is an alternative app that competes with marketplace. That + messenger keep most people there. Signal (or whatsapp which while meta, isn't tied to fb account)'already can replace messenger.
That is simply the truth. Here is Belgium we have an app called 2dehands which is very prolific and have a way better interface and experience than marketplace (even though it is nowhere near perfect or great).
Marketplace is definitely completely secondary to 2dehands in the Flemish part. Brussels still uses marketplace a lot, but literally all marketplace needs in order to slowly die off is competition but the 2nd hand market is not a lucrative app space with no real funding opportunities outside of data sale so nobody does it.

Let’s hope so.

I've noticed a significant change in my Facebook feed recently. It's almost all content creator content now, which I'm taking as a sign that my network is no longer posting there.

Bigger question. Honest question.
Why are YOU still there???
- Because Facebook killed enthusiast forums for most of my hobbies and everyone migrated to FB. Thats where the knowledge is.
- Some countries insist on using Messenger and nothing else, until that changes I can't leave.
- It’s pretty good for buying/selling used stuff.
- Y'all would be surprised how many Facebook users there are outside of the west. In my home country of Vietnam Facebook is like Twitter+Reddit+more. It's the most popular social media app. Everyone is on Facebook. The government posts news on Facebook, academic institutions post news on Facebook. Everyone posts official news on Facebook. Hobbyist discussion happens on Facebook. Buying and selling stuff - also Facebook. Wanna watch short form/long form content? Also Facebook. Facebook Messenger is also the second most popular form of communication. But it is to us what iMessage is to Americans. If you're not on Messenger, fat chance nobody will talk to you. There's Zalo which is technically in first place but Zalo is where the Vietnamese government gets to exert its control and it's mostly to conduct business and talk to boomers. It's that bad. Facebook is also very popular in other Asian countries like India, Indonesia, Thailand and the Phillipines, although I'm not sure to what degree.
- Because I have no choice. There are couple groups I'm part of, and they exist solely on fb. Even tried moving some of them to reddit like 5-6yrs ago, but it didnt stick. Reddit back then would've been better than fb... ultimately the decision was out of my hands.

Didn't happen to Twitter. Didn't happen to Reddit. Won't happen to Meta.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2024/03/06/usage-of-elon-musks-x-dropped-30percent-in-the-last-year-study-suggests/
orly?
- Kinda blows my mind that people think that shit is going to happen over night.. That's hundreds of millions of people..
It's already happened to Facebook. And it's happening to Twitter. And Reddit. This stuff takes time, but the character and feel of each service has shifted considerably.
- The phrase used was not "shifted considerably", it's "mass exodus".

If Twitter hasn't had a mass exodus I'm not holding it hope for any other social media. The fact of the matter is the majority of the public just don't care.

I mean it kinda has. It wasn't an insta-kill but users have dropped dramatically and it's still dropping
- https://www.demandsage.com/twitter-statistics/
  Rebranded as “X” in July 2023 under Elon Musk’s leadership, the platform saw a 15% drop in monthly active users soon after. Despite this, with 611 million monthly active users...
  "X" is doing just fine.
Apparently a bunch of blue checks got really pissed about, of all things, Elon faking his Path of Exile 2 cred. I'm annoyed that that's what it took for some people to finally realize he's a piece of shit, but you know what, doing the right thing for a stupid reason is still doing the right thing. Regardless who knows if it'll result in any large number of people leaving. All I know is that it blew up on Reddit, according to this news here which I recommend you watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL4NB4HCyb4

Huh, a friendica post in the wild on the Lemmy.world front page. Cool!

You will see it more ;)
But if its Activity Pub then why doesn't it open in my app? I have to click it and open in an external web browser
- Well, it's posted here as a link, so I guess it's not here via federation.
  Also I think different fedi apps support different AP content types, so possible that Lemmy can't display it?

Until you provide an easy solution for grandparents to watch their grandkids grow up, meta will have a captive generation and a half.

Group chats? They've replaced almost everything I used to use Facebook for.
- Meta owns WhatsApp.
- Most of my immediate family just does sms group chats. I don't keep up with the extended family, seeing them every other holiday is enough
Snapchat and frequently updated Frameo picture frames seems to the go-to my cousins use to keep my grandmother updated about her great-grandchildren.
Posting public images of your children certainly got an icky feeling over here. At least after there was a push in media to make parents conscious about potential privacy infringement it may be for the child.
Grandparents watched their kids grow up for thousands of years before social media. I think there are clearly other ways....jesus people.

why prefix the hash tag with Hello? Isn't #QuitMeta better?

Hello, what's with no hello?

Theres no app for us artists to post our art and get work other then instagram (or twitter but fuck that).

Have you heard of Pixelfed?
https://pixelfed.org/how-to-join
- Yea i used it for a while a year it two ago and figured its not worth my time since it doesnt have a userbase or any thing to attract people to move to it
  See my comment here https://slrpnk.net/comment/13170801
Are you also using Pixelfed?
- No, just like everybody else who isnt using it 😅 its stillll not on the app store after like 6 years and now the dev is working on Loops. Also theres no decent discovery with only the single chronological feed. Bluesky and an instagram clone using the at protocol will be easier for us to migrate to because feeds help discovery a ton.
- Are people who offer work for artists using Pixelfed?

Betteridge's Law applies here.

Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
- Ha! That's pretty good, and probably very accurate.

Are there still any non-boomers left on Facebook?

Not really, but Instagram and WhatsApp are still massive
Yes, loads. It's very useful for non-anonymous groups + events.
I'm not really ON facebook. But way too many of my friends use it as a way to send invites to events. I literally just pop in every other week to check notifications and see if anybody invited me to anything. It's kind of infuriating how no other method makes it so easy to just invite 20 people somewhere.
The fediverse doesn't have a decent calendar/invite solution does it?

Even if so, they may see that as a plus. Twitter survived the massive cutting / culture change that Elon brought to it (as a gross little shadow of it's formal self, but the vultures don't care).

Facebook in some countries is a necessity because it acts like The Everything website. it's like the WeChat of southeast Asia

Good riddance. Sadly I think it will take another generation before the boomers wake up

I think it will take another generation before the boomers ~~wake up~~ die.
FTFY
- Seriously, why can't they just die already.
Good thing most of them will be dead by then.

Just don't use Social Media? Idk why people keep using this dogshit as if they expect it to change. JUST STOP FUCKING USING IT. You'll be thanking me later for the boost in mental health.

Isn't Lemmy social media, or am I overlooking something?
- It is but it's not the same. There's something fundamentally different about social media that links your real identity to your comments. Also here I can easily just not sub to political communities. On other social media it's very hard to get rid of.
- Every media that allows you to be social, like interacting with other users, is a social media.
  A movie is not, but a news website that allows comments is, any forum is as well.
  Don't let others convince you with arbitrary conditions just because they don't like that their favourite media is a social media.
Really not a reasonable take. Social media is great for discovering new things, people, and groups of interest. Sure, you can do that outside of social media too, but in a much slower and more limited way.
Also, lots of housebound disabled people use social media for their main source of socializing.
My wife got off last year. I just use it for some communities I’m involved with and like 10 friends that seem to appreciate my posts.

I noticed a few people recently signing up for Friendica because of the changes.

Again? 2019…2013…and however many other “exodus” articles are written. Facebook is still the biggest. Must be a slow news day.

Nope, my fb friends never leave.

META is becoming more based each day it seems.

Calling a mega corp"based" is straight clown behaviour....
How old is u, boy?
- I'm 24. I didn't say META is based. I said it's becoming MORE based. For example: If META was only 10% based and now it became 20% based - it's still not based, but it became more based. Hope this better explains my perspective.