Every one one of my friends and family use it daily.

And a huuuuuge sell is marketplace. Literally no one touches Craigslist anymore. So if you wanna buy used from people, you literally need marketplace.

a lot of you consider facebook + whatsapp + instagram usage covers a large chunk of thr western sphere

There are parts of the world where the Facebook app basically is the Internet. Places where most people dont own a laptop, but everyone has a cell phone and phone service comes bundled with discounted Facebook data. Their hold goes way beyond social networking to, local businesses and even government services dont have webpages, they have Facebook pages only. Every game people play runs through Facebook, and all their saves are locked up with them. Every video people post or watch runs through Facebook and its hyper localized algorithm. It would take generations to displace them.

Seriously, how are there still so many people on meta?

Social networks become part of people life, they use them to talk to relatives, friends and to build communities. Once social networks started to become popular, facebook with the help of governments, rich people and other corporations managed to become the biggest platform, they got so big that they turned into a phone book where everyone was in. Meta used the billions we feed them, our data and their popularity to build/buy other social networks and tools people are now hooked up. In italy whatsapp replaced mails and it's what most people are using to talk with each other.

WhatsApp is extremely popular, even among people who don't use any other Meta services.

I use it for messaging. Boomers are on it heavily and the Portal TV - a truly wondrous device despite the caveat - needs a FB account also.

But reading the scroll? Not so much.

Edit: aw crap. I'm on whatsapp a lot too -- I forgot they're a meta deal. It's honestly hard to care enough to keep track, some days!

how are there still so many people on meta?

People in developing countries have Facebook as their default internet destination, sometimes it is even the internet encapsulated, as it literally combines almost all the online services that are normally separate; they go there for their daily entertainment, news, and socializing fix.

Family keeps me from deleting my account but I don't use it for anything other than messenger and unfortunately marketplace because that's replaced everything else.

Boomers are set in their ways

Same reason why so many are on the chinese version of it: They don't need more of the internet.

Thats like asking "How are there still so many boomers alive?"

Give it time.

I deleted mine in 2010, when Stan Marsh showed us how (s014e4). I think it was pretty cool by then already.

It was always cool to avoid facebook. Yes I AM a myspace loyalist who's still pissed 20+ years later!

I'm also still pissed napster died!

Did you lawyer up and hit the gym?

No, they hosted their own instance... or at least that is what i understand

Threads can interact with the fediverse, when meta rolled in the platform there were many talks about unfederating with them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36384207

I thought about that, but tell who ? There is only a PO Box, so I'll have to send a letter, no mail, and only a broken chatbot in the support...

because fake users drive advertising revenue.

Wow hackerman should uhhh hack Facebook that'd be awesome they should do all these good things!

It must be a device I used to log in my Facebook account in the past 🙃... Which I never used in another device. It's crazy

I would like to but my account is locked. Only because I've changed my email to use an alias from a Linux device, I think it triggered a bunch of security measures. What I find crazy is now I'm completely blocked and cannot have my account deleted. My name and picture is forever stuck on this cancer of a web site.

I'm so old I remember when Facebook didn't exist :) Or Zuck, in fact.