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It wouldn't be that hard to write a bookmarklet that scrolls through your feed, removes posts from people you don't follow and sorts the rest by time. A good portion of people here on HN would be capable of writing it. That nobody does shows that there is not really a strong preference for this type of experience over the current suggested/ads/friends mix.
Craigslist is a clear fallback for marketplace (although there was evidently a reason people started using markplace in favor of craigslist).
Nextdoor/Reddit are just as much cesspools as FB groups...is there room for an oldster friendly groups replacement that somehow solves the cesspool problem? At least in my area these fill the void of not having local news - but instead it's a local bitchy gossip stream.
Social feed is the big one. Obviously insta for photos, if they don't screw it up. Do whatsapp/telegram/signal fill the void otherwise?
This period is best understood as a brutal hangover from several years of market subsidized growth. We had cheap Ubers, cheap meal delivery, and free web services all paid for by a speculative bubble which is in the process of popping. Meta can't just admit that they don't have a viable business model or their stocks will truly crash, so they have no choice but to cannibalize their remaining customers, like how phone…
I absolutely hate the unwanted recommendations and Reels, but I currently still find FB useful for staying in contact with extended family and friends, so I use this "Facebook Hide Recommendations and Reels" browser extension to keep FB useable: https://github.com/mrinc/Facebook-Hide-Recommendations-and-R... Even with recommendations and Reels disabled, other aspects of FB have also degraded significantly: - Friends…
> I suspect people have also grown wary of Facebook's privacy practices like I have
I do not think this really tracks for the average user. Most people use social media because they a) want to be seen or b) want content tailored to their interest.
Ironically, FB now offers neither. So even my wife, who will gladly give out her info for any sweepstakes she can doesn't really find anything particularly interesting anymore.
It wouldn't be that hard to write a bookmarklet that scrolls through your feed, removes posts from people you don't follow and sorts the rest by time. A good portion of people here on HN would be capable of writing it. That nobody does shows that there is not really a strong preference for this type of experience over the current suggested/ads/friends mix.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/socialfixer/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-faceb...
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fbcleaner/
Facebook does make changes from time to time which makes it a bit of a cat and mouse game to keep these things working and that can easily get tiresome for people. Also some people might find the initial time investment to create these things to be too much.
There is another post in this thread where someone mentioned that for many people (but apparently not all???) including myself, browsing to https://www.facebook.com/?sk=h_chr tends to show your friends' posts in chronological order like many of us prefer. There are also several people who mention that using ad blockers like uBlock Origin do seem to be fairly effective at blocking most ads and other unwanted suggestions in Facebook and it does seem to work for me.
It's a very similar business as malls and amusement parks, you can't just keep doing the same stuff cause people's taste change.
I 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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I'm not sure it's the advertising dollars that are addictive as much as it is "growth". To keep the stock price up you have sustain a PE that reflects revenue growth, and once you are done signing up new users... Well... Something's got to give. I see the ads as a lot like cutting timber out of a finite forest - it's profitable, but potentially harmful to the ecosystem in a way that can make it unsustainable. As long…
Amazon seems to have taken a different route. Keep margins low and don’t make too much money in order to starve any potential competitors of capital. Of course - you still need to grow revenue for this to work - just not profits.
What 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