I have a similar experience with OpenAI. Just want to apply with my MCP App, but the application process, a multi step automated form submission, is totally flawed, buggy and broken, so that the form for apps submissions is simply not working. Trying to report this bug just results in an AI response black hole on their support address. No real humans there. The whole OpenAI back end platform is unbelievably buggy, nothing works. No wonder, if you cannot report _their_ bugs. I cannot advertise a MCP App for ChatGPT to the users of my platform, if there isn't a minimum level of trust, between OpenAI and me. If I cannot talk to a real human I simply do not take the brand of my platform, where I put countless years of effort in, and throw it in some out-of-control venture company maelstrom.
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#622The author seems to think his personal defunct and bloated feed is representative of what other users are experiencing... Come on!
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#623I checked mine, and it's still got family news, and some friends etc. There were 1-2 items of slop but not that bad...
I was more surprised by how I didn't even realise or hear about one of my cousins getting pregnant, another cousin of mine getting married, and another one passing away. I have been living abroad for 18 years though so fair enough but still feels a little bit odd.
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#624Deleted mine in 2013 :flex: I mainly didn't like people being able to stalk me after high school, but I find that I have a very different world view than people that did continue to use it (usually), I also find it really easy to tell if someone is a heavy facebook user by the psyops/weird narratives they end up repeating. They seem much more susceptible to "fake news" and advertising in general. I encourage pretty m…
Hey, me to, in 2013. :-) I had over 300 "friends" on facebook. I deleted them all. :-D 2010-2012 were funny times on FB though, I even was a FB app developer. Do FB apps still exists? Or a MCP apps the new FB apps now?
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#625Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the feeds depends on the posts you read, even accidentally. My feed is free from extreme left content but I didn't have to block anything. Simply by not reading that kind of content, the algorithm knows I am not interested.
Yes, hence my comment about "rubbernecking". If you tend to slow down for car crashes, the algorithm shows you more car crashes. It amplifies our worst instincts.
That effect also applies when you try to block car crashes. That happened to me years ago with the same genre of videos. Like car crashes and people falling and hurting themself a little bit.
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#626Earlier quoted context omitted.
How can we complain that everyone is siloed and no one talks to each other and complian that their feed is full of ideas outside of the silo.
The worst to me is the way people dehumanize other people who don't agree with them. The other side politically doesn't just have different views, they are barely human knuckle draggers. Basically neanderthals, so who cares if they go extinct.
"don't agree with them" is carrying a lot of weight here, isn't it?
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Try https://www.fbpurity.com/ I'm using it for Facebook interface needs until I can get something more agentic in my browser operational. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interopera...
The only way you can use FB imo.
Agreed.
I'm over 50, so I'm 'allowed' to use FB ;-),
for those few posts of the last remaining family and friends there.
Using FBP, I only see new posts of friends in chronological order.
But FB still f*cks you, because it does not show all updates of everyone.
When the algo decides you've had enough, you simply reach the 'end' of your feed.
Well when FB, sessions keep getting shorter and shorter...
There are some EU laws in the making that might change things, though.
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#628Earlier quoted context omitted.
> My wife was complaining about far right knuckle draggers turning up in her feed. This is what is so difficult in facebook vs. HN. Here if people post angry insulting rants, it gets collectively downvoted to oblivion. That is effective. On facebook there is no equivalent. All I can do is block an individual, but I personally have to do it for every offensive person, which is for practical purposes impossible. Facebo…
"I'm not interested" and "Don't show posts from this person" is the dowvote button for the algorithm. If you use those functions liberally your feed gets pretty clean and aligned.
Except here on HN, other people take care of the downvoting for me. I only have to reach for the downvote button a few times a year.
Whereas on Facebook style algorithmic feeds, you have to "use those functions liberally" and the result is only "pretty" clean.
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#629If you are on the web, the fbpurity extension helps a lot. I just checked my feed and no junk. Trying the iphone app instead it's just a head wrecking steam of garbage.
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#630My 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…
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