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Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by chistev »

radpanda wrote: post #122

I haven't used Facebook in probably a decade or so. I've missed out on Facebook Marketplace apparently - at least 5 people in this thread mention using Facebook for that specifically, and I have heard numerous friends talk about snagging good stuff person-to-person like I used to do with Craigslist. OTOH, I haven't heard anything especially good about Facebook Marketplace's UI or features, just that "everyone is on F…

I've never seen "OTOH" used before but I understood what it meant from context. Lol.

Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by [deleted] »

nephihaha wrote: post #106
ge96 wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

YT is like this too, if you're not logged in, thirst trap, crazy stuff until you build up a search history (even not logged in)

Now and then it gets things right, but I find a lot of YT recs to be pretty dubious, and find it is trying to bias me in this direction or that direction. It's pretty pathetic. The search function is also useless. About the only Scottish history content I ever get rec'd is Scotland History Tours. While I like his channel, it is not the only show in town and it doesn't go very deep. When I got my last YT account I cou…

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Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by giobox »

qq66 wrote: post #64

Facebook doesn't care about Facebook.com anymore. The value of their business is almost entirely in Instagram, with some future potential in WhatsApp.

While I mostly agree, Meta cares a great deal about facebook.com/marketplace, which has been hugely successful.

Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by drnick1 »

HoldOnAMinute wrote: post #3

I'm a parent in my 50's. "Peak Facebook" is years in the past for me. But it was great for a while. My spouse, friends, friends' spouses, and I were all sharing stories and pictures of our kids, travels, and experiences, such as dining experiences or hikes. There was so much joyous sharing. And it wasn't done for clicks, views, or monetization. It was just friends, sharing their experiences, encouraging each other, e…

> There was so much joyous sharing. And it wasn't done for clicks, views, or monetization.

All along, Meta was vacuuming that data to build profiles of you, your family and friends, to be sold to third parties. You have been duped.

Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by ryandrake »

Maxion wrote: post #103
euleriancon wrote: post #26

I had a similar experience recently, where I logged in to Facebook after not using it for years and was shocked by how much garbage was there. My spouse does use Facebook somewhat regularly so I looked at her feed and it was much more reasonable. I wonder if for those of us that haven't used Facebook in years the recommendation algorithm is essentially default. Which much like the default youtube algorithm, is comple…

I logged in to instagram after like 5 years and my whole feed is literally just thots and AI generated content, even though I follow a crapload of accounts.

Not just thots but thots with inevitable links to their OnlyFans pages. It seems that FB and Instagram's primary purpose has become funneling people into OnlyFans. I wonder if Zucc has caught on to this and is at least getting some revenue share from OF.

Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by dlisboa »

dash2 wrote: post #93

This is the tech version of "nobody I know voted for Nixon": FB's position in the US & Europe is very misleading from a global perspective. In the Philippines, say, Facebook is the internet. Every business runs on it. People use it instead of news. Everybody uses Messenger to chat. You get free minutes with your phone that are specifically for FB/IG/Messenger.

I don't see it as misleading at all. You're leaving out half the world and implying it's doing fine. Regular Facebook usage in Brazil is also non-existent and it's the 5th or so biggest Internet market. China doesn't have it. I'm not sure about India usage. So if FB isn't popular in the US, EU, China, Brazil, etc, that's an extreme amount of market loss.

Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by ASalazarMX »

fullshark wrote: post #16
sunir wrote: post #11

We lost the Internet to AI. Just accept it. It's bots talking to bots about bots.

You just need to find a smaller walled garden that can be tended, and not care deeply about having a massive audience and you can still find interesting conversation.

I've seen many Lemmy communities die because their creators abandoned then when they didn't grow fast into thousands of members. This fast growth fixation is so pernicious, if anything web forums and Reddit showed us, is that small communities are higher quality than big ones. Communities in the thousands require a lot of moderation effort to remain high quality.

Enjoy your small circle of internet strangers sharing a common interest, you don't need to become viral.

Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by drnick1 »

bojanz wrote: post #94
da02 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do your social groups use nowadays?

In my part of Europe it’s all in private WhatsApp groups (one for inner family, one for friends, etc)

Unfortunately, those are also being surveilled by Meta, so the exodus from Facebook did not help. Consider Signal or a private XMPP server.
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