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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
#22The way I use FB these days is to logon at most once per week or every other week. It gives your friends/groups some time to post. Most people aren't posting on a regular basis and oftentimes the ones who are you don't need to read 90% of their posts.
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#23I suspect part of it is that Real People are posting less. Since the feed doesn't have a bottom anymore it makes up the difference with sponsored and suggested junk rather than going empty.
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#24Literally all my social contacts have left FB for quite a while already, myself included. I'm surprised people still talk about this.
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#25I mean Facebook is a dying platform. All the fake numbers won't make a difference.
Mind you, communities/groups, obviously imitating subreddits, as well as the marketplace are saving it quite well from ending up like MySpace/Hi5. It's also evident that there has been a significant boomer infestation to the userbase the past 10 years.
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#26My feed is practically spam.
Re: FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts
#27I suspect part of it is that Real People are posting less. Since the feed doesn't have a bottom anymore it makes up the difference with sponsored and suggested junk rather than going empty.
This.
Most people have ~300 friends. Most of those friends never post, and the 10% that do probably only post a couple of times a year now.
That means whenever you log in, there is no content from your friends to see.
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#28Ironic that a redditor is complaining about memes. I thought all the good people were driven away from Reddit years ago by the meme cancer.
A lot of reasonably small, well-moderated subreddits are still pretty great.
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#29I 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 f…
For years Facebook fed me interesting local pages and national news from (usually) reputable sources. About six months ago Facebook decided that what I really need to see is an endless stream of lingerie and female-focused sex toys; I've never clicked on these things, or lingered long over them, as far as I am aware.
Coincidentally, it was around six months ago that I disabled the browser from my phone; so perhaps they no longer have location information to lean on?
And, of course, I haven't seen a post from a friend or family member in recent memory.
Re: FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts
#30I suspect part of it is that Real People are posting less. Since the feed doesn't have a bottom anymore it makes up the difference with sponsored and suggested junk rather than going empty.
That's a really important consideration. I post virtually nothing and neither do the majority of my old friends from school. Maybe it is due to being older and generally less interesting, but I suspect it is also because my friends who are inclined to post prolifically have moved on to Instagram, TikTok, or Twitter.