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Re:Meta Earning Results Q3 2022 [pdf] by colinmhayes on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @09:16PM (#33351792)
Facebook still has 3 billion daily users. For all the doom and gloom it’s doing fine. Yes it’ll probably slowly fade into history but that will take decades.
Re:Meta Earning Results Q3 2022 [pdf] by kevinventullo on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @09:38PM (#33351944)
That doesn’t make for a compelling buy signal. In principle, you should buy a stock because you believe you will be repaid in dividends over time. If the ship is sinking, even slowly, those dividends are not terribly appealing.
Re:Meta Earning Results Q3 2022 [pdf] by samatman on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @10:31PM (#33352338)
By the end of the decade people will feel about Facebook the way they feel about Game of Thrones.

Vaguely remember when it was a big deal, but not why.

Re:Meta Earning Results Q3 2022 [pdf] by ethbr0 on Thursday October 27, 2022 @07:50AM (#33356168)
This undervalues Facebook's social network moat, which is honestly what they should be leaning into: a more interactive Yellow Pages / local groups directory.

That's much harder for competitors to disrupt, especially when you give people tools to amass and customize content on their pages. E.g. wiki's, info, etc.

Re:Meta Earning Results Q3 2022 [pdf] by samatman on Thursday October 27, 2022 @08:26AM (#33356494)
There's no moat.

Inertia isn't a moat.

Source: I've re-spanned my social graph several times since Usenet.

It's fine. People aren't corporations.