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The reality is that nothing is really dying and nothing is really changing. Twitter is still fully operational and other than a small hit nothing happened. Twitch already did a step back. For Reddit we'll see but only a really small percentage of reddit is using third party apps.
It's not the services that are dying, but the internet as we used to know.
Change is natural, but the services are all changing in a way not beneficial forthe users.
I think the "the internet is dying" perspectives are all incredibly overblown. They aren't going anywhere anytime soon. I remember all of the "Facebook is dead, I don't know anyone using Facebook!" posts, but I suspect many here are invested in some index fund that is being pulled upwards by Meta.
This is the natural cycle. Big sites get greedy and kill off the user base for a payout and we go to the next one. The fact reddit kept alive for so long is surprising but it take a lot for people to bother moving.
Also pretty much everyone 25-45 in my local area is still very much using Facebook.
In my area (metro big city), the only way to get anything accomplished from an advocacy/fundraising aspect is through facebook. There's just no alternative unless literally everyone shifts to an alternative that hasn't been created yet.
Facebook is big in paintball circles. As much as I hate to say it their format works exceedingly well for organizing and buying/selling. As long as we censor appropriately it's arguably the best format we've had thus far and I'm not sure anyone would be willing to part with it for a new platform.
Meta is trying to diversify away from Facebook though... Hence the name change.
The hit Twitter suffered might be bigger than you think: Yahoo Finance (from Bloomberg) link
Talking about use, not how much the company is worth. It was overinflated anyway like many of s&p500
I don't think it's fair to say nothing is changing, but "dying" admittedly seems like hyperbole.
Organizations can die slowly or not at all but still be gravely damaged. They are almost certainly making these moves to capture the least critical (most profitable) portions of their userbases and hunker down for survival. Even if the change is extremely painful, they're (likely) planning for the specific goal of avoiding total death.