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by parkingrift 1596 days ago
Neither MySpace nor Digg were anywhere near the scale of Meta. At it’s peak MySpace was one or two orders of magnitude smaller than Meta is today. Facebook may wither and die but they also have Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus.

And for what it’s worth there is almost nothing more I’d like to see than Meta vanishing. I hope you’re right.
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evanelias 1596 days ago
In 2006, MySpace was the most visited website in the United States. Wikipedia cites a couple of sources, and I do recall this being widely reported at the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myspace

Granted, the web was a much smaller place then, in terms of both users and revenue. But still, relative to its time, it was huge.

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reustle 1596 days ago
> At it’s peak MySpace was one or two orders of magnitude smaller than Meta is today.

While this may be true, what % of global internet DAUs did each of them house? I'm not sure if this relevant or not, but it seems the internet was just a much smaller place back then.

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parkingrift 1596 days ago
I don't know. Is it really that relevant? It's just fundamentally pretty hard to quickly shed 1.92 billion users. Quick and dirty math there are around 3 billion internet users in the world, excluding China. Meta platforms have 1.92B of those people. The scale and penetration is hard to fathom.
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yucky 1596 days ago
>it seems the internet was just a much smaller place back then.

It sure felt a lot bigger than it does now.

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