Looks like this is using the FB app, which the users has little control over.
I don't use FB or Instagram anymore, but when I did, I used Firefox, so I could at least use uBlock or a Tampermoney script.
FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts
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#12Same. This also stems from the fact that no one I know (outside of my Boomer parents) even uses Facebook anymore, so Facebook has next to no "real" data to use like they used to. I've even started noticing this on Instagram, as well. Back in the prime of Facebook there was so much content to use from friends they could fill a feed and even "curate" it, but now I think majority of my friends post AT MOST 1 time a YEAR on Facebook. With the lack of data, they have to just fill it with nonsense to make it look "interesting", but my guess is that it fools very little people.
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#13I mean Facebook is a dying platform. All the fake numbers won't make a difference.
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#14Knowing the beast firsthand, there's no trace of doubt in my mind that the convergence to a junk product outcome involved a monotonous increase in ad revenue and likely, engagement metrics.
There's a tragic dimension that a system which connected so much of humanity to itself so well would be rendered so toxic as a product and as a community in just a few years.
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#15What is worse, I have seen quite a few suggested pages spreading hardcore conspiracy theories.
Facebook is a machine learning system in which there s only positive reinforcement. Reality is the opposite, people learn by their mistakes mostly. Biological netwokrs with continuous positive reinforcement end up epileptic. So does facebook
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#16Same for me. I checked in a few times this year, and it's utterly unusable. If I want to argue about clickbait on the internet, Facebook is the last place I want to do that.
But I'm sure some PM's really proud of the engagement metrics they've generated.
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#17Same crap with Instagam
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#18Deleted Facebook years ago and turns out if you have actual friends who you care about, you'll just send each other life/status updates via direct messages (whatsapp, sadly also owned by Meta).
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#19The current FB is great for productivity!
No need to mourn the former FB. It's gone.
I've given up on FB as a social network a long time ago. I unfollowed all my friends and started following things that interest me. Followed the astronomical society so I can be informed when they have a public night. I get ads for everything I need for renovating my house: roof sealing services, AC repair, contractors, new windows, cabinets, countertops, tiles, custom woodworkers, and more! The comments teach you a thing or two too.
The other great things on FB are events, the marketplace, and groups. So much useful information out there if you tailor the platform to your needs.
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#20Ironic 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.
Certain unhealthy ideas throughout history seem to metastasize and cause great harm to their host societies until they are eventually discarded or defeated.