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I think you are conflicting what people want with what people would use! Also: feeds are not ranked because of monetization...they are ranked because they work

I think you are conflicting what people want with what people would use! Also: feeds are not ranked because of monetization...they are ranked because they work better that way

dkarl 9y ago
I don't know if feeds really work better that way. There are people I wish I was still following on Facebook because I'd like to get the highlights of what happens to them (moves, deaths, other important life events) but I had to drop them because they post trivial shit that gets dozens or hundreds of likes. Reactions were designed to help with that problem (sad news can get sad reactions so it can get elevated the same way a "liked" post can) but people still get more sad reactions when they post a link to a news article about pollution or kids dying in a car crash in another country than when they announce that they themselves have a serious illness. I wish there was a social network that could somehow avoid people competing to post the highest volume of popular content, so they could relax and focus on posting information about themselves that other people want to know. But even if you were somehow able to force people to just post about themselves, no third-party content, there are plenty of people who would make a meal of it by posting endless videos about their grooming regimen, their cooking, or cute stuff their cat does. It all just devolves into competing for attention. Hmmm. How about a social network in which everybody is guaranteed equal exposure, and posting more content only dilutes your own content, not everybody else's?
- rock_hard 9y ago
  You raise some good points...a ranked feed is certainly also not perfect...but at least you got the flexibility to do all the things you proposed.
- beenBoutIT 9y ago
  Whatever system Facebook was using to determine the contents of your feed back when Facebook was more enjoyable for you would probably still be the best system to use now. Someone clever should just recreate the Facebook from 2000's that everyone liked, call it something else and give the UI/UX a long-overdue upgrade.

I think you are conflicting what people want with what people would use! Also: feeds are not ranked because of monetization...they are ranked because they work better that way

dkarl 9y ago

I don't know if feeds really work better that way. There are people I wish I was still following on Facebook because I'd like to get the highlights of what happens to them (moves, deaths, other important life events) but I had to drop them because they post trivial shit that gets dozens or hundreds of likes. Reactions were designed to help with that problem (sad news can get sad reactions so it can get elevated the same way a "liked" post can) but people still get more sad reactions when they post a link to a news article about pollution or kids dying in a car crash in another country than when they announce that they themselves have a serious illness. I wish there was a social network that could somehow avoid people competing to post the highest volume of popular content, so they could relax and focus on posting information about themselves that other people want to know. But even if you were somehow able to force people to just post about themselves, no third-party content, there are plenty of people who would make a meal of it by posting endless videos about their grooming regimen, their cooking, or cute stuff their cat does. It all just devolves into competing for attention. Hmmm. How about a social network in which everybody is guaranteed equal exposure, and posting more content only dilutes your own content, not everybody else's?

rock_hard 9y ago
You raise some good points...a ranked feed is certainly also not perfect...but at least you got the flexibility to do all the things you proposed.
beenBoutIT 9y ago
Whatever system Facebook was using to determine the contents of your feed back when Facebook was more enjoyable for you would probably still be the best system to use now. Someone clever should just recreate the Facebook from 2000's that everyone liked, call it something else and give the UI/UX a long-overdue upgrade.