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by hawk_6 hours ago |
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upvoteby minraws6 hours ago|
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They beat revenue expectations, and earnings per share was ok, and they guided for even higher revenue next quarter above estimates ofc.

Somehow Meta is making money despite starting to loose DAUs now. So honestly I don't quite understand what's what, also most of the big income is from Ads and biggest Ads spenders are startups and companies heavily dependent on VCs and AI... So it's definitely somewhat circular, and Ads is the most recession affected business so a down turn in markets will cycle through it.

But ngl if all the earnings are this ok then hyperscalers stock might not crash this quarter, well then again I didn't think they would but a person could dream.

I am quite bullish on AI, but would prefer the fluff to get out of the way asap, otherwise don't want it to happen at a bad time, and too many people get caught pants down.

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upvoteby dntrkv2 hours ago|
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If you're on IG, it's pretty obvious how they're getting more ad revenue. They're serving up more ads through stories/reels and the ads have become less conspicuous over time. e.g. you're watching a story and only a few seconds into the story does the ad overlay appear whereas before you can tell it's an ad from the beginning.
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upvoteby cush5 hours ago|
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Their users are ad execs and data brokers
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upvoteby Forgeties796 hours ago|
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Hell didn’t they stop even reporting DAU’s?
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upvoteby minraws5 hours ago|
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they now do something called, Meta Family daily active people, similar thing but aggregate of all Meta stuff. very sus imho.
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upvoteby Forgeties791 hours ago|
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WeWork made their weird adjusted revenue number and everyone lost their minds. Facebook makes up KPI’s that fly in the face of decades of industry standard and we’re just supposed to accept it lol
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upvoteby lrvick6 hours ago|
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Well Meta is reacting to all the costs by just starting to charge for things previously free, like sharing links.

I suspect they are now entering the Earthlink/AOL phase where they squeeze every last dime out of the confused and abandoned senior citizens left on the platform until they die off.

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upvoteby kube-system6 hours ago|
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Meta also owns the 2nd, 3rd, 5th, and 14th largest social media platforms behind facebook.

3.6 billion people use a Meta app every day - 43% of the world's population.

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upvoteby lrvick5 hours ago|
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True. But seeing them lose an arm would be proof the monster can be killed.
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upvoteby kube-system5 hours ago|
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I'm saying I don't think we'll see that. Yes, many people I know have left facebook but I think that's an artifact of me being in a bubble rather than it being a global trend.
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upvoteby lrvick5 hours ago|
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I am more optimistic. People are addicted to targeted content, but local LLMs are already great at this. I have an agent that manages my local playlists and operates my own local spotify from a consumer GPU.

And youtube, same thing. I have not actually used youtube in years. Local software downloads video files from their servers, strips all the ads and sponsored content, and shows me the ones most interesting to me.

Once that is easy for everyone to do with software and weights-on-silicon embedded in next gen phones, the entire value prop of these networks starts to fall apart.

Between that and endless fines and negative movies coming out, I think they can be killed, or at least not a thing kids are allowed near anymore.

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upvoteby kube-system2 hours ago|
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Respectfully, you're in a bubble and few people really give a shit. Installing an ad-blocker is a ridiculously trivial exercise today, and it's now built-in to several popular browsers, but still 2/3 of internet users are not using one -- about 4 billion people.

Also, how do you scrape videos from YouTube after you "kill it"? YouTube's value is not contained within their web frontend. YouTube is popular because of the network effect they've built by providing massive amounts of free hosting for expensive-to-host content. An LLM does absolutely nothing to undermine that. And, if it ever became a threat to their bottom line, they'd just force users to use a trusted client. They don't bother now because the number of people doing what you're doing rounds to zero.

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upvoteby Aurornis6 hours ago|
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upvoteby paxy6 hours ago|
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Escaping litigation with a fine is always a good outcome, no matter how large the penalty. Stock price will drop the day governments start regulating these companies or breaking them up.
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upvoteby techjamie5 hours ago|
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I've always been fond of the idea of putting a corporation in "jail" where any presence they have is shuttered for the duration, bank accounts are frozen, and locations are to be uninhabited except by third party security.

They can hire lawyers to argue it out while they sit in limbo like the rest of us.

Imagine if Amazon ran afoul of the law and AWS was offline in corporate jail for a day? It'd be motication to never, ever risk that happening.

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upvoteby reasonableklout5 hours ago|
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Other countries also have a concept of the corporate death penalty. But it has not happened in the US for something like a century.
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