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Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by ceejayoz »

ergocoder wrote: post #257
Ancapistani wrote: post #163

I use Facebook a lot, but not for the social feed - Marketplace, business pages, and ads. I’ve never interacted with their “shorts” feature, and it’s all young women and girls in as little clothing as they can manage. It’s to the point that I don’t open the Facebook app in public. Ridiculous.

The reels section is ridiculous. It's definitely NSFW. Facebook doesn't support hiding it permanently. Like what you experience, I cannot use Facebook at work anymore. Any Facebook PM out there? Can you make it a setting to hide it permanently?

They can. They won’t.

Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by scaredreally »

My main use case for FB is a group related to reviewing restaurants in the area. I have no FB friends/connections. I use messenger for my one friend who insists on using it. It is mostly slop (and strangely I get posts from that same relationship account), I scroll for about 5 minutes at a time before I realize it is not worth looking at. And truthfully, that is what I want from social media: a few minutes worth of distraction followed by the feeling that I had just wasted my time and then on to something more meaningful.

Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by gus_massa »

mikepurvis wrote: post #191
pdpi wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's two separate things at play here. One is "I don't want to use Meta products as a matter of principle", and WhatsApp's a no-go if that's your posture. The other is "I don't want to drown in horrible, algorithm-curated junk content". Instagram is just as bad as Facebook there, but WhatsApp is definitely not the same.

100%. Whatsapp is still zuck, but it doesn't have a "feed" and that's the most important thing about it for me.

Now at the bottom it has a few tabs: Chats, Updates, ...

Updates are broadcasted, but they disappear after 24 hours.

Step 1) Keep updates for a week, later forever

Step 2) Mix Chats and Updates

Step 3) Add a few relevant patrocinated posts

Step 4) Change the css from green to blue

Step 5) Profit

Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by zadikian »

0x1ch wrote: post #54
zadikian wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there a problem with my name being green?

New user. To see replies THAT fast on a new user reply which generally isn't pushed to the top of the feed, I find that very interesting.

Idk. It was at the top for me, so I saw it.

Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by maurycyz »

Very predictable: If Facebook (or any other social media site) showed you what you wanted to see --- stuff from your friends --- you would be satisfied and leave.

... but Facebook makes money off ads. They don't want you leaving. They want you to stay online all day.

Instead, they show you brainrot: content interesting enough to keep you on the site, but shallow enough that you are always thirsty for more. However, making this content is still a lot of work, and isn't what most people want to do: It takes a lot of brainrot to keep you trapped 24/7.

Slop requires no effort, costs next to nothing, and fills the "brainrot" niche perfectly. Facebook doesn't care that people are posting bot content, because it's the perfect thing to make them money.

Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by bko »

curious_af wrote: post #228
mbo wrote: post #202

My mother is an international flight attendant in her 60s. I recently caught a glimpse of her Facebook and I was shocked to discover a version of the website that seemed to be the platonic ideal of exactly what all the Facebook PMs intended. Her feed was filled with the photos of her friends and coworkers international trips and holidays, posts in groups for planning activities in her most frequented cities. But I di…

International flight attendant. So the algorithms for people that travel internationally a lot are drastically different from the people who remain stationary. If Facebook wanted to prevent themselves from negative publicity, they might have a different experience for the people who have political power (international travel might be the best proxy for that) What you're referring to may also be part of their XCheck p…

I think you're overthinking it. She probably just has a lot of real people connections and drives the algo to meaningful interactions. When a ghost logs in, they don't know what to show so default to "general" spam which is just AI generated woman.

Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by downboots »

alex1138 wrote: post #14

Zuckerberg is what I might refer to as "forced" network effects. And I don't mean the natural network effects that result from people using a good and hence popular product (or network effects building on itself). Facebook replaced people's emails in their profiles with fb.com addresses, the company lied to people about privacy forever but especially with the former it's the site that actively tries to take you over.…

Maybe. But you can't deny their strategy worked. Seizing most with FB, IG, WA for the average people

Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by CosmicShadow »

Aurornis wrote: post #243
moduspol wrote: post #210

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They should offer that privilege to the rest of us for a few bucks a month. I'd probably pay.

You don't need to pay anything. That's just how Facebook works when you have active friends on it and you engage with their content. I do find it interesting that tech people are so baffled when other people enjoy Facebook and derive value from it. I think we see so many exaggerated headlines about algorithms and feeds that people who don't use the site have a very different idea of what people who do actually use th…

Yet my wife uses it daily and has to keep 16 separate tabs open to people and bands she wants updates from because Facebook refuses to put them on her feed, despite her commenting on every post and story from them; she instead gets all these random shitty "suggested" posts from things that she would never have interest in or actively hates and FB should know that. She constantly mutes and reports shit. I get the same thing, but I don't use FB nearly as much. Those same bands have to spam repeatedly because despite having tens of thousands of fans they show everyone that their posts are only shown to 16 people. It's a shit site that maybe works for some folks, but not at all for us active or not.

Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by jcgrillo »

SamuelAdams wrote: post #198

This is not unique to Facebook. Reddit has seen a large uptick in AI-generated posts, or repeated posts from the past. I think we need to recognize that social media of 2026 is not the same as what we had in 2006. AI generated content, regardless of if it is image, video, or text, is here to stay. And it will only get better and more convincing as the technology improves. What people really need to ask is this - what…

It doesn't matter to any of these companies what their users get out of it so long as those "dumb fucks[1]" keep coming back to the trough and slurping up the slop. Eat your rage bait and like it, piggy. Keep that attention economy roaring!

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2010/05/14/facebook_trust_dumb/

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