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I'll bite. Yes, almost exclusively. To the point where I made a list of my favorite two hundred publishers as an interest list and used that as my FB link in
by basch 6y ago
I'll bite.
Yes, almost exclusively. To the point where I made a list of my favorite two hundred publishers as an interest list and used that as my FB link in my browser toolbar. It makes a great link aggregator.
I also had separate topic lists, one just for recipes (17 follows), one just for tech news (60 follows), science (33 follows), entertainment (29 follows), art (24 follows), business (26 follows), and world news (58 follows). For some reason none of those lists work anymore, they all had to be recreated after a certain date, as a "custom list" instead of an "interest list". The basic workaround is, follow a page, add it to your list, unfollow it.
Conversely, I can have a list of just close friends, same thing applies, I only see their posts, not anything else.
The thing about lists is I could have multiple feeds instead of one news feed, and I can pick the feed I want.
FB is killing the list feature over time, I'm surprised it works in any capacity. It's not in the new redesign, and it's not in mobile.
- 0-O-0 6y agoIt looks like you could improve your experience by switching from Facebook to any RSS reader.
- raziel2p 6y agoAssuming that publishers have functional RSS feeds, which is rarely the case. For small venues/companies/organizations I more and more often have to go to their Facebook page rather than their website to get up-to-date and correct information.
- basch 6y agoQuite the opposite. The benefit is getting Facebook's algorithm, instead of a reverse chronology. I never found any of the million apps that tried to accomplish this to actually mix the news better than fb. I liked the idea of prismatic, but it surfaced mostly clickbait. Feedlys popular didn't feel as dynamic. Have you tried using Fb this way, or are you just telling me I should use something else? Why do you think I would find rss to be an improvement (I migrated from rss to Fb lists.)
- 0-O-0 6y agoI've made this suggestion because at first I didn't realise that you find FB's algorithmic sorting/curation useful. I tend to read (or at least skim) all of the content that I subscribe too and FB (and Twitter) are a bit hostile for this usecase.