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Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by ishouldstayaway »

zadikian wrote: post #47
wincy wrote: post #34

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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.

Same. Idk how college communication work now; we had class groups and planned everything over FB events/pages back then. For friends, I started a few text group chats to stay in touch. It's really annoying because someone has Android and RCS is broken on someone's end. Some also use FB Messenger, but nobody 2 years younger or older than me is on that.

> I started a few text group chats to stay in touch.

This is the space that WhatsApp fills, for better or worse.

Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by veunes »

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…

Your mum's experience is probably what FB is best at: high-trust network, lots of original photos, lots of comments from real friends

Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by veunes »

dboreham wrote: post #411
whyenot wrote: post #391

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As a middle aged (gen x) woman, my facebook feed is pretty good. It's filled with posts from friends and interest groups that I am a part of. The reason I no longer use FB has nothing to do with the feed, it's because Mark Zuckerberg is an awful person, and I refuse to use his product. The cognitive dissonance is great here, because I still use WhatsApp; it's the best way to stay in contact with my relatives in Europ…

I'm still a FB user even though most friends and relatives have disengaged due to toxicity. But what I've noticed consistently is that any group on FB that has more than 1000 members will end up surfacing so much toxic sentiment that I have to unsubstantiated. I'm talking about innocuous fields such as the local road conditions. That one became full of rants about out of state drivers, drivers who don't understand En…

Once a group gets big enough...

Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by veunes »

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.…

The part I really agree with is the social impact

Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by veunes »

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…

Active account with real interactions = more normal. Which is a pretty telling product story in itself

Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by kornork »

What's stopping someone from literally cloning the minimal feature-set we loved, and so many people here seem to be pining for?

I scrolled down a fair bit and didn't see anyone posting an alternative.

Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

kornork wrote: post #816

What's stopping someone from literally cloning the minimal feature-set we loved, and so many people here seem to be pining for? I scrolled down a fair bit and didn't see anyone posting an alternative.

Spam and abuse. That is, assuming you get critical mass to begin with, but as soon as people find out another service where they can upload files to and the like, the abuse will begin. Facebook employs (tens of?) thousands of people for content moderation, and that's after their well-trained automated systems filter out the worst / well known stuff.

I don't know how other, newer social media (e.g. bluesky) handle it. I suppose there's off the shelf software / services for something like that?

Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

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…

The reposts and crossposts are popular because while you may have seen it before, millions haven't.

I think I'm almost at the point of letting it go already. If AI becomes more egregious / apparent, I'm out. I was caught by one already - scrolled for too long, came across some manufacturing video (I love those), but as it went on it became less and less realistic. By the end I was like "huh, TIL robots can make jeans out of banana fiber end to end", but that wasn't true.

Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

monero-xmr wrote: post #246
thrance wrote: post #240

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Weren't you the one telling us X.com should replace legacy media? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46891442 As a reminder, a glimpse at X's front page a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46504404 I think it's very telling how you went to Reddit first when complaining about politics on social media, one of the only big ones that still hasn't been completely invaded by MAGA sycophants. Just admit…

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No online platform has free speech. No online platform should have free speech. Besides, free speech is a constitutional / legal thing, a platform does not need to host it.

Claiming Twitter has free speech (as in absolutist, as in you can say what you want and won't get banned) means you've drunk the kool-aid / accepted the propaganda.

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