You know it will have the latest in AI assistant and AI generated ads on hookup unless you have a premium account.

Do you still use Myspace?

That would work if they had a stable business model and produced something everybody needed or wanted, like diapers or alcohol. Their entire business model requires they keep users engaged and user count growing.

People will leave Meta the more Meta tries to make more off of a stagnant userbase, which will death spiral.

It is more that they are not growing, and that means dying in their business model. By not reporting an accurate metric of user engagement, they are hiding the stagnation or loss. Background logins from apps are likely also hiding the real picture of user engagement. Without active user engagement they lose their revenue, data harvesting and advertising.

So there are signs that they are in a downturn, which will lead to irrelevance and failure.

It’s no Project Orion, that’s for sure.