FYI it's one of the recurring question asked during the Q&A and I've heard Mark answer once that it's just not the business Meta is in, their business is connecting people. I thought it was an OK answer, still, how much money are they leaving on the table?

Isn’t their business about selling ads? I thought they would be more honest.

I think it’s important to point out that selling ads is the way to fund the vision for Meta, which is to connect people. I think it is still very true in different parts of Meta (whatsapp for example) which have remained excellent tools for people. Facebook on the other hand has become less and less useful as a tool by diluting its offer with noise and falling in the engagement trap due to FOMO (“we’re going to lose our users and become less relevant as a platform if we don’t optimize on engagement”). That’s my opinion.

Sorry, I mean a currency

If I'm not mistaken they already did, or are doing it. Some time ago I was getting a lot of ads related to this in my spam inbox: https://www.diem.com/en-us/. It used to be called Libra.

Edit: Actually, it looks abandoned, it was supposed to launch last year. They sold all the assets to Silvergate and nothing happened as far as I can tell.

There was unsurprising massive backlash against Libra at the time and Facebook silently abandoned the project.

Sorry this was sarcasm

Oh I see :D

Weren't you thinking about an alternative universe ? Dare I say, a metaverse ?