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> No one, not even Mark Zuckerberg, can control the product he made. Well, one can control oneself, that's about the best we can do. As others have mentioned,

> No one, not even Mark Zuckerberg, can control the product he made. Well, one can control oneself, that's about the best we can do. As others have mentioned, don't use it. I tried that. After years of not using FB at all, I missed out on some important news that was only posted there. I decided to get back on FB, on my own terms. I created Bubble [1] and now I can visit FB with most tracking disabled, no ads, I only see posts from my friends, and even then only posts that do not link to news websites or contain political keywords. My signal/noise ratio is usually about 50%. I love my clean feed. Works on LinkedIn, Twitter, others. But the root problem goes deeper -- clearly not everyone cares or has the motivation to filter their own social media feeds. Some people like reading echo-chamber/fake news posts, truth is far down on their list of priorities. I don't know what the big-picture answer is. [1] https://getbubblenow.com https://getbubblenow.com (currently in beta)

tenebrisalietum 6y ago
I got tired of the garbage. First of all, I made a decision Facebook is not the center of my life and decided to stop posting personal things on it except for major announcements. I also started doing the following very aggressively: - unfollowing everyone who only tended to posted stuff I didn't want to see, - using the "Hide Post", "Hide All From X", and "Hide Ad" options very liberally - if I had any problem at all with the post or ad whatsoever, - reporting posts that had content I didn't like and even had a hint of violating Facebook policies--none got deleted but I think this affects Facebook's AI. I'd love to see a list of everything I've blocked and share it, but I don't see how to get that from Facebook. It took several months, but probably would have been less time if I was a daily Facebook user. At this point I have no political or news items (things I hid like crazy) on my Facebook at all. I have fun things from groups I've joined and that's it. It's boring and quiet, and there if I really need it without annoyances. But it did take some work and it's true, not everyone cares to put in that work. But they'll repost dumb meme stuff all day.

tenebrisalietum 6y ago

I got tired of the garbage. First of all, I made a decision Facebook is not the center of my life and decided to stop posting personal things on it except for major announcements. I also started doing the following very aggressively: - unfollowing everyone who only tended to posted stuff I didn't want to see, - using the "Hide Post", "Hide All From X", and "Hide Ad" options very liberally - if I had any problem at all with the post or ad whatsoever, - reporting posts that had content I didn't like and even had a hint of violating Facebook policies--none got deleted but I think this affects Facebook's AI. I'd love to see a list of everything I've blocked and share it, but I don't see how to get that from Facebook. It took several months, but probably would have been less time if I was a daily Facebook user. At this point I have no political or news items (things I hid like crazy) on my Facebook at all. I have fun things from groups I've joined and that's it. It's boring and quiet, and there if I really need it without annoyances. But it did take some work and it's true, not everyone cares to put in that work. But they'll repost dumb meme stuff all day.