Isn't this.. a good thing? Don't we want Facebook to die and go away?
Citation needed. When companies shift from Monthly to Daily active users for example it's a perfectly valid way to recognize that they want to change the way they think about their north star metrics. At Facebook scale, I think it's rather brave for them to change the most important metrics that they report, showing that they're still open-minded to innovate on that frontier (and they are most certainly on that frontier as few companies operate on that scale). Having worked there in the past I would believe that this isn't just a vanity change, most likely a fundamental change on how their teams will be viewing these metrics and objectives, and may lead to material differences, likely for the better.
Daily active people is the de facto north star metric for a lot of companies, and to move forwards and adjust their definition is interesting.
"Obfuscated" is a judgment we're making. I'm assuming internally it's very well-defined. Perhaps they need to better define it outwardly.
I am giving them the benefit of the doubt and if they are indeed doing it as obfuscation, I agree it's not good.
I used to love CL. I used it so many different ways. From getting rid of stuff we didn't need, to older tech stuff I could give away and always have a bevy of people wanting it. Now? It just seems rife with sketchy people trying to scam or outright rob you.
None of these social networks are inherently wrong in that they shouldn't exist as technology, it's just they are all subject to the same perverse incentives that drive them to make their products socially corrosive is the issue.
It's just then the company isn't making (enough) money and starts enshittifying itself to do so, almost universally at the expense of the user experience and in some cases, user safety.
Sorry for the rant. I’m just a bit salty from seeing the irreversible negative impact all of these have had on society.