FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts
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Re: FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts
#2Ironic that a redditor is complaining about memes. I thought all the good people were driven away from Reddit years ago by the meme cancer.
Re: FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts
#3Use this URL[1] to open it in a browser with adblock. It gives your feed in reverse chronological order, with a 90%+ ratio of friends posts. (Just verified)
[1] https://www.facebook.com/?sk=h_chr
[Update] If you click anything it takes you away from that feed... that's why I have it in my Bookmarks toolbar. If I find myself going "wait.. this feels different"... I look up and see the URL is now the generic one, and I've fallen off the path.
Also: I have 141 friends... not sure if that's a high or low number relative to others.. but there's always someone posting. I just read until I've seen it before, twice. (Some people repost other people's stuff)
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#4What is worse, I have seen quite a few suggested pages spreading hardcore conspiracy theories.
Re: FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts
#5Ironic that a redditor is complaining about memes. I thought all the good people were driven away from Reddit years ago by the meme cancer.
Memes aren't cancers, they are ideas.
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#6I don't see quite this many ads/suggested pages, but I often see two ads in a row on mobile. Every time it happens I close the tab.
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#7I almost never log in to Facebook anymore, but the feed was hilariously bad the last time I checked it out. Almost entirely ads for random crap, eyecandy videos, exotic Asian street food videos, etc. Nothing even remotely related to my interests.
At least Facebook seems to have figured out that I'm not a Star Wars fan. For years, their algorithm somehow decided that I liked Star Wars and that I wanted my feed to be full of lame ass Star Wars memes. I haven't been even remotely interested in Star Wars since I was a boy, and as an adult I hardly even watch Star Trek or have an interest in any other sci-fi. Perhaps Disnay was paying Facebook to just blast their product at random people.
I suspect the even greater amount of suggested content in the FB feed is another symptom of the TikTokification of the internet. Facebook was already kind of doing this, but the feed becoming almost entirely suggested content definitely seems like a response to the fact that the 68th percentile of the public seems to have no problem scrolling through random eye-catching bullshit.
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Re: FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts
#9Use this URL[1] to open it in a browser with adblock . It gives your feed in reverse chronological order, with a 90%+ ratio of friends posts. (Just verified) [1] https://www.facebook.com/?sk=h_chr [Update] If you click anything it takes you away from that feed... that's why I have it in my Bookmarks toolbar. If I find myself going "wait.. this feels different"... I look up and see the URL is now the generic one, and…
This didn't work for me at all.
Re: FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts
#10Use this URL[1] to open it in a browser with adblock . It gives your feed in reverse chronological order, with a 90%+ ratio of friends posts. (Just verified) [1] https://www.facebook.com/?sk=h_chr [Update] If you click anything it takes you away from that feed... that's why I have it in my Bookmarks toolbar. If I find myself going "wait.. this feels different"... I look up and see the URL is now the generic one, and…
This has been broken for me for the better part of the last 5 years. It would show me posts from several days prior, when I had just seen that there were posts from a few hours prior. It's almost as if FB didn't care to fix the chronological feed, since they wanted you to use The Algorithm instead...