not even “still on facebook”, since 2020, the surge of people moving TO facebook instead of away of facebook has increased tremendously.

the traditional second hand market sites are dying because facebook marketplace is taking over.

traditional websites and helpdesk/support channels are dying because companies are switching to facebook pages and messenger/whatsapp.

old school forums have more or less been entirely replaced by facebook groups.

alternative chat platforms have more or less died because of messenger.

branding is nearly gone everywhere and has been replaced by instagram.

the list goes on.

and imo the worst part is, facebooks policy and technical offering is inferior to the alternatives people are moving away from. and the only reason everyone is moving to facebook is because everyone is moving to facebook.

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the day Mastodon offers Groups, I will be advertising the move to Mastodon and shortly shut down the groups I run. Though, Groups was supposed to be out already last year and yet we’re in 2024 and nothing is happening. If they had managed to stick to schedule it would have been a golden opportunity because a lot of people were looking for alternatives (but found none), when facebook went ham on their policy. but as there was no alternatives, everyone’s back on facebook just circumventing the policies (for now).

i think he stopped working on groups because mastodon officially announced groups shortly after gis preview. not that they have delivered it yet (release target, q4 2023 - an no word for 2 years now).