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Ironic 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.
I 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.
A more accurate way to state it would be to say 'facebook connections'. If you don't regularly communicate with them, they aren't your friends.
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Sounds a lot like Google Search results. It’s almost as if advertising dollars are an addictive drug that ultimately kills the company.
It actively makes the product worse. E.g. from yesterday, if I search for "high tc record," I'm not looking for the set of bedsheets with the greatest number of threads.
I remember at some point there were a bunch of Facebook ads about how it was a great platform for groups. What happened to that focus?
And the irony is Reddit social feed is "broke" when trying to view details about how FB is broke :-/
I'm seeing the "You broke reddit" screen as well but you can still access the post if you use .compact or the `new.reddit.com` domain. https://old.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/tvqddc/fb_feed_is...
is this reddit's not-so-subtle way to stop people from using old.reddit?
Yes it’s a negative feedback loop created by the very bad product decisions they made to optimize for local maxima of getting more ads revenue. You inject more and more ads followed by more and more suggested content, thereby reducing the in network content. The in network content doesn’t get as much of traction, therefore people stop posting. This in turn forces the feed to have more and more suggestions and a few s…
Sounds a lot like Google Search results. It’s almost as if advertising dollars are an addictive drug that ultimately kills the company.
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In fairness, reading your search term, I had no idea what you were talking about so it's not entirely surprising the organic content producers don't match those terms well. Looks like the SEO folks do though.
Works fine in DDG: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22high+tc%22+record Edit: and also Google: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22high%20tc%22%20record
I mean Facebook is a dying platform. All the fake numbers won't make a difference.
Crazy idea: FB should stop trying to lure people back from Tiktok with weird features and just lean in to its one remaining strength, which is that among social media sites, it's the most generic and boring and ubiquitous. Being the default place for non-influencers to do quotidian stuff like hearing about school closings, joining the PTA or HOA, coordinating family gatherings, see your nephew's school photos, etc wo…
The thing is that would mean making Facebook less valuable, causing the current shareholders to lose money. It's going to be hard to get someone to accept a business plan that will cost them money, even if the alternative is worse long term. Perhaps because you're betting that you can of load our shares before the whole thing goes belly up (whenever that may be).
I think your idea makes a lot of sense, it would be cheaper to run, there's less fancy features to develop, might be cheaper to run andless use for moderation. The thing I don't understand well enough is the ads: Can you charge more, because your users are older and buy different things, or do teens and younger people have more disposable income?