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Perhaps it's better to link to the FB's post itself: https://about.fb.com/news/2021/02/reducing-political-content-in-news-feed/ https://about.fb.com/news/2021/0
by aasasd 6y ago
Perhaps it's better to link to the FB's post itself: https://about.fb.com/news/2021/02/reducing-political-content-in-news-feed/ https://about.fb.com/news/2021/02/reducing-political-content... (Also it's rather telling that CNN doesn't think it necessary to link to the source.)
Personally, as a non-user of FB, I'm hella confused by this announcement. Apparently the feed is not dictated by the user's subscriptions but by FB's will? Such social service, wow.
- chordalkeyboard 6y ago> the feed is not dictated by the user's subscriptions but by FB's will? This is why my abortive attempt at using fb to keep in contact with people who refused to use another service was terminated.
- bobthepanda 6y agoSo I remember using Facebook years ago. First it was people, pages, groups you followed in chronological order. Then it wasn’t chronological order, but it was still stuff you explicitly chose to follow. Then they started showing you things these entities liked. And then somewhere along the way they definitely got more and more aggressive about shoving things in your face from the last category, at the expense of things you explicitly chose to follow. At this point, I pretty much just use the Messenger app.
- dawg- 6y agoI think Facebook could get a lot of users back by giving up even a tiny bit of control over the feed. Maybe some people want the algorithmic garbage feed, that's fine if it works for them. But just adding an option to see my friends'/groups posts in chronological order would make the whole thing a lot more palatable.