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I found disabling notifications and moving the app off the Home Screen did the trick for me. I unintentionally weaned myself off Facebook. Facebook did this to themself. When they started throwing irrelevant push notifications at me I couldn’t turn off, I just disabled ALL of them. That was a dumbass invasive move on their part which I’m sure hurt more than it helped their engagement.
It's possible that they found out that the vast majority of users don't disable the notifications so you would fall in the minority who do. Still worth it for them
You’re probably right, but these decisions compound over time. Each time they lose x% of users. Eventually they’re left with a much smaller, very active (and profitable) user base which has endured enshittification of their service for so long that they’re inches away from leaving. At that point a light breeze can topple it. It’s the normal business life cycle, and I think Facebook is well into the product decline phase.