Facebook’s algorithm isn’t surfacing one-third of Chicago Tribune’s posts
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Re: Facebook’s algorithm isn’t surfacing one-third of Chicago Tribune’s posts
#2I find it fascinating that media companies like news papers have completely tied their success to a 3rd party platform like Facebook. They have essentially given all of the publishing power to Facebook. AMP is another one that comes to mind.
Re: Facebook’s algorithm isn’t surfacing one-third of Chicago Tribune’s posts
#3Wonderful. Journalism is just a game to the Chicago Tribune.
"Because if 1 of 3 Facebook posts isn’t going to be surfaced by the algorithm to a significant degree, that would change how we play the game."
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#4It's interesting to see how Facebook is taking increasing control of news and publicity on its service. In a sense, we're long past the point of questioning whether it's ethical, since they've obviously been influencing content for a long while, but this is one of the strongest arguments for FOSS alternatives like Mastodon.
Hopefully, if this continues, big businesses will push the shift to open instances for a more level playing field, and the users will follow.
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#5People simply like too many pages that produce too much content. There has to be prioritization and people have a natural limit to how much time and attention they have to scroll down all the way.
So this is a fundamentally hard problem to solve. You can already prioritize posts from a page to appear at the top of your feed if you really don't want to miss posts.
The real issue is that people underestimate the amount of content they're going to get with a like.
Re: Facebook’s algorithm isn’t surfacing one-third of Chicago Tribune’s posts
#6I find it fascinating that media companies like news papers have completely tied their success to a 3rd party platform like Facebook. They have essentially given all of the publishing power to Facebook. AMP is another one that comes to mind.
They didn't do it willingly. Facebook drew the news readers away from the publishers, and the publishers had to follow the readers.
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#7People simply like too many pages that produce too much content. There has to be prioritization and people have a natural limit to how much time and attention they have to scroll down all the way. So this is a fundamentally hard problem to solve. You can already prioritize posts from a page to appear at the top of your feed if you really don't want to miss posts. The real issue is that people underestimate the amount…
But people have always liked too many pages so I'm not sure it can explain the recent drop
Re: Facebook’s algorithm isn’t surfacing one-third of Chicago Tribune’s posts
#8It's interesting to see how Facebook is taking increasing control of news and publicity on its service. In a sense, we're long past the point of questioning whether it's ethical, since they've obviously been influencing content for a long while, but this is one of the strongest arguments for FOSS alternatives like Mastodon. Hopefully, if this continues, big businesses will push the shift to open instances for a more…
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Re: Facebook’s algorithm isn’t surfacing one-third of Chicago Tribune’s posts
#9People simply like too many pages that produce too much content. There has to be prioritization and people have a natural limit to how much time and attention they have to scroll down all the way. So this is a fundamentally hard problem to solve. You can already prioritize posts from a page to appear at the top of your feed if you really don't want to miss posts. The real issue is that people underestimate the amount…
This. From the article:
> We went from roughly 20 posts per day to 24 posts per day.
If you post that many articles to Facebook then I'm simply going to unfollow you. Imagine I have ten sources posting that much, or one hundred sources. You think I'm going to engage with everyone? Heck no. Post one thing a day, two absolute tops. Ideally one thing a week but obviously that's not many sources ideal model.
If I really want to follow you I'll add your RSS feed to my reader. Facebook, Instagram, et al, have become one big screaming match and this is only going to get worse until people realise that less is more. If they decide to change their feed algorithm, well, sucks to be you.
Re: Facebook’s algorithm isn’t surfacing one-third of Chicago Tribune’s posts
#10People simply like too many pages that produce too much content. There has to be prioritization and people have a natural limit to how much time and attention they have to scroll down all the way. So this is a fundamentally hard problem to solve. You can already prioritize posts from a page to appear at the top of your feed if you really don't want to miss posts. The real issue is that people underestimate the amount…
Yesterday I checked Facebook at least 5 times. It kept putting the same post at the top of my news feed. There weren't even new comments on the post or anything. For me, that behavior is broken.