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A comment on Mozilla’s 18-month effort to market without Facebook. Parent comment

Re:Mozilla’s 18-month effort to market without Facebook by oska on Thursday October 17, 2019 @06:25PM (#21286904)
> Everybody reads Facebook.

No they don't. Far from it.

> Those newspapers are disappearing, and people pay little attention where they do.

Local newspapers are coming back. There are at least three glossy free newspapers where I live (published weekly or monthly) that are packed full of local advertising and local news stories, local identity profiles, etc.

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Re:Mozilla’s 18-month effort to market without Facebook by thfuran on Thursday October 17, 2019 @06:35PM (#21286969)
>No they don't. Far from it.

That's technically correct but some 1.6 billion active daily users is kind of a big deal. "Everybody Uses facebook" is about as close accurate as you're going to get for an "Everybody does X" claim this side of "eats".

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