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I've really felt like there's been a large decrease in feed quality of the last six months to one year on Facebook and Twitter. Feed is now dominated by advert
by sambe 10y ago
I've really felt like there's been a large decrease in feed quality of the last six months to one year on Facebook and Twitter.
Feed is now dominated by adverts, endlessly shared click-bait, repeat content (especially if conspiratorial/shocking/fake - a variation on click bait), and the "you interact with this person sometimes, here's everything they ever do". And begging me to follow Zuckerberg. Compared to a couple of years ago it seems boring and shallow.
FB is particularly bad, but partly seems my friends are part of the problem (and/or click bait is hugely on the rise; it works). Twitter maybe a bit less so, but this out-of-sequence stuff is terrible. Also miss the early Twitter days when I found interesting randoms to follow from the public firehose, now all celebrity focussed.
- Yhippa 10y agoIt would be nice if they could prioritize things by letting the user indicate "I want to see more/less of this stuff" and then build the algorithm based on that. I bet they did their testing on that and realized that users never end up doing that so they're going to try to come up with their own strategy. I agree with you, my feed has really dropped in quality even after blocking clickbaity sources like BuzzFeed and other content farms.