[tablespoon]

> Meta's death (if it happened), will be a slow and a long one.

Exactly, there's no way Meta will suddenly disappear and go poof, barring some kind of extreme government action or bizarre corpora-cidal action by its controlling shareholder Mark Zuckerberg.

[bsenftner]

Or, the worse possible: becoming unfashionable.

[bcrosby95]

Facebook hasn't been fashionable for over 10 years. Yet here we are.

[bsenftner]

Well, I'd say you're correct, but my point is they are not "unfashionable", as in "ewww! you use Facebook!?" in a shrill tone. All it will take is the GOP to politicize being on FB, and it's over. Divide and destroy.

[dopidopHN]

But react still kind of is.

[tablespoon]

> Or, the worse possible: becoming unfashionable.

Nothing popular becomes unfashionable that quickly.

[willturman]

Facebook is already unfashionable.

[ushakov]

it already is, TikTok took over

[chrisdbanks]

I'm sure that's what MySpace investors thought.

[evanelias]

Not quite comparable. During MySpace's peak, it was a wholly-owned subsidiary of NewsCorp. Reportedly its stumbles were due (at least in part) to internal disagreement over strategic direction between MySpace and their parent company. Sort of like if Instagram imploded due to disagreement with Meta, rather than the entirety of Meta dying.

[slg]

Doesn't that prove their point? MySpace has been in a slow death that has taken decades, but even now it still isn't completely dead. Considering Meta is so much bigger than MySpace was at its peak, I don't see why we would expect the death of Meta to be sudden.

[dopidopHN]

Myspace was not such a development powerhouse, was it? For instance in the context of that question, did they issues framework widely adopted outside of MySpace?