81–90 of 890 posts
Facebook basically has sexual content spam as in the OP article all the way.
It's to the point I'd never open either app when in public.
My feed has devolved into AI generated propaganda with a scary amount of genuine support. Police brutality against minorities and other politically relevant groups; all fake but with hundreds of seemingly real replies cheering them on.
It is interesting where you go on (eg. echo chambers) but like 9gag for example is super racist and doesn't seem to be moderated.
Like TruthSocial do real people actually use that? Crazy
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 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…
It is 60% garbage but actually the 40% that is there is completely different and valuable compared even to YouTube (where I spend the lions share of my social media time). But I actually think that only looking at it once a month is the best way since if I look at the feed more often I notice it slowly skews more to 90% garbage and 10% value.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
What do your social groups use nowadays?
Similar experience for me and it’s just been replaced with… nothing. My gaming buddies talk on Discord but I just don’t really hear from my aunts and uncles and cousins anymore. It’d be a hassle to even figure out how to contact them. Only 13 people showed up to my high school reunion last year from a graduating class of ~400.
Yeah, actually why I left Facebook a decade ago: finding out what horrible people my relatives were.
Switch tabs, come back.. it refreshes everything and you can never go back.
Comment threads with 100+ comments with only a "show more" link, which again.. se previous paragraph.
See a video, click fullscreen icon. Doesn't go fullscreen, goes to some weird modal window, muted. Click fullscreen again..
And I'm sure I could go on... It's really a sad shell of the simplicity it once was.