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Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by jamincan »

socalgal2 wrote: post #781
jamincan wrote: post #734

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do other people use reddit? I'm subscribed to a bunch of subreddits and that's the content I see. Reddit is honestly one of the more positive parts of the web for me.

which subreddits do you frequent? My experience of any coding subreddits is lots of posturing, lots of closing, no few actually useful answers or discussion

My reddit feed is predominately my local community subreddit and various hobbies/activities - mountain biking and cycling stuff, outdoors stuff, geology, swimming, some ttrpg stuff - and then interspersed with a few more random things that I try to keep with more of a positive tilt - todayilearned, bestof, EarthPorn - that sort of thing.

I do have a few programming subreddits, rust, sveltekit, and adventofcode, which mostly seem more newsy or avenues to help or learn about developments in that area. /r/rust does have an annoying tendency to get posts of some person new to rust telling people who are presumably already familiar with rust about what an amazing and transformative language it is, but those are pretty easy to identify and skip by.

Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by dang »

mgraczyk wrote: post #768
hackernewds wrote: post #767

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Maybe you are too young to have noticed, but this is how Facebook used to be for every one. Until some a/b testing likely led to short term engagement boosts for news content and that's all you could see - especially during the 2016 news cycle with (allegedly Russian) political ads. Then people stopped posting, and others stopped posting, feedback loop and here we are.

This is lie, I was there and this is not at all what happened

I appreciate the voice of experience but if you're going to post a comment like this, could you please share some of that experience so we know at least some of what did happen?

Otherwise it comes across as a drive-by swipe, which is a human reaction when you know that something on the internet is wrong, but which degrades the threads, partly because of the example it sets for others. The life of this community depends on knowledgeable people sharing some of what they know, so the rest of us can learn.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by overgard »

LarsDu88 wrote: post #442

The poster here doesn't seem to grasp how Facebook's algorithms work. He didn't use it for a very long time. The algorithm defaulted to content that appeals what little it knows about him... probably a middle aged man who hasn't clicked on facebook in a very long time. Maybe the first thing he actually did click on was a notification with a picture of an attractive young woman. If he sought out richer stuff on the pl…

> The poster here doesn't seem to grasp how Facebook's algorithms work.

Since when do customers need to grok the algorithm? If it doesn't work it's not on us.

Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by rconti »

pants2 wrote: post #417
rconti wrote: post #409

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I always really enjoyed Facebook -- much more so than any other social media network. It was all friends, friends' content, and groups I was interested in and cared about. Sure it had ads, and a bit of suggested stuff, but mostly it was interesting content, no ragebait, no politics. But as those friends use it less and less, I use it less and less. And the less I use it, the more "suggested" crap I get. If I don't us…

To think I used to log in to Facebook every day, scroll friends' posts until it said "You're caught up!" then leave. That's almost unimaginable now, but I deeply wish I could return to that experience. Unfortunately as the suggested content got turned up, friends stopped posting, so even with all the browser extensions in the world I can't get that same experience back.

Yup. And unfortunately, I realized I've benefitted from the algo too. I tried the friends feed, and I ended up with MORE politics!

Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by tallanvor »

jedberg wrote: post #204

> So: is this just something wacky with my algorithm? No, it's not. Once Meta identifies you as male, you will get almost exclusively thirst trap posts no matter what you do. It started about two years ago. Some other interesting points: A woman posted on reddit recently saying she noticed her son's feed was filled with this stuff, so she created her own instagram account, identified as a man, and had the same feed.…

I don't. Instead Facebook tries to shove right-wing crap down my throat. I'd rather see the thirst trap posts, to be honest.

Snapchat, on the other hand, I had to uninstall because the stuff they tried to make me view was completely and utterly disgusting (think pimple-popping vids and worse). There was only one person left that I communicated with through their app, so it wasn't a real loss for me.

Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by ceejayoz »

ThrowawayTestr wrote: post #771
ceejayoz wrote: post #252

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Sure it does. https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/14/on-elons-whim-x-now-treats... > If you write the words “cis” or “cisgender” on X, you might be served this full-screen message: “This post contains language that may be considered a slur by X and could be used in a harmful manner in violation of our rules,” the warning says. You can continue to publish the post or delete it.

Is a two year old article the only thing you have?

Nope!

Looooong list at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Twitter.

Like when they banned posting the word Substack or linking to websites in your profile under Musk for a while. And @elonjet is still banned, despite an explicit promise not to.

Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by giancarlostoro »

arnvald wrote: post #786
giancarlostoro wrote: post #782

Remember MySpace? It was a platform full of millennials mostly. Facebook became the next thing but if you note teens dont want to be where their parents are, it takes away from their ability to express themselves. Then as they grow they might adopt platforms like Facebook, but Facebook might not find the adoption they are hoping for. I think there will be a follow up to Tik Tok in the future that will have the next g…

IMO Facebook has a bigger problem - I’m a millennial, far closer to a middle aged man than to a teenager, and I don’t want to be on Facebook because it’s so full of garbage. There’s just nothing interesting except for Market. Surely there’ll be a follow up to TikTok and other trendy apps, but Facebook is where I should want to be, and I don’t

I'm a millennial too, and I log into Facebook like once or twice every 3 months. I don't use it as much as I used to.

Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by veunes »

The depressing part is that generative slop is a perfect match for the incentive structure: infinite supply, tuned to trigger comments, and you don't need real creators. If your product metric is time-on-site, this is what you get
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