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After unfollowing 90% of the people, I had a different problem. Facebook kept filling my news feed with "X liked this" or "X commented on this" from the remain
by blue11 11y ago
After unfollowing 90% of the people, I had a different problem. Facebook kept filling my news feed with "X liked this" or "X commented on this" from the remaining 10%. It seems that one of the goals of the news feed algorithm is to make sure that you are always seeing new content. This became really annoying really fast. So I ended up unfollowing 100% of my friends, than created a group containing the ones that I really cared about. Now my news feed is practically empty. It takes me one extra click/touch to get to the new "feed". The benefit of doing this is that in the group feed there are no "X liked this" items, only posts by my friends or posts in which they were tagged. Of course, at any time FB can decide to change the group feeds to make them similar to the news feed, but for now this setup kind of works for me.
- will_pseudonym 11y agoYES! I have the same problem (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10849984 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10849984). I solved it by being OK with it, but I think that a browser extension would solve this issue pretty quickly, if I knew how to do it. Delete any element on facebook.com* that contains "* liked ". I can do it manually, I just don't know the Chrome extension world at all.
- jakobloekke 11y ago"Solved it by being ok with it" is my favourite quote of today!
- will_pseudonym 11y ago<3 Thanks for that! It's an amazing way to solve problems, especially if your normal way of existence is to be frustrated by awful products in every angle of your POV :)
- CodeCube 11y agoTotally zen :) I mostlynlearnednto be with it, with one exception. Anyone I see a share from a radio station, I block that radio station's page. 9 times out of 10, they only share insipid memes ... And my feed quality has improved significantly.