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I started again to use RSS and Atom feeds last week. I used to use facebook as an aggregator, but its curated list has become too poisoned since the pandemics

by myth2018 6y ago

I started again to use RSS and Atom feeds last week. I used to use facebook as an aggregator, but its curated list has become too poisoned since the pandemics and "political outbreaks" that followed. The algorithms noticed that I've been (automatically/inadvertently) interacting too much with such content, and decided to focus on that in order to keep me hooked. Facebook and other platforms profit by subtracting value from society. I ask myself if that will stop someday.

crocodiletears 6y ago
I've had the opposite experience. Facebook's been actively unfollowing and hiding my political groups for me. Every few days I have to go through a list of pages, check to make sure I'm still following them, and interact with posts to keep them in my feed.
- asddubs 6y ago
  that seems like the point where you'd stop using facebook, when you're altering your behaviour to appease the algorithm, because it won't just let you control what you want to see anymore. although i admit I also open all youtube videos of categories i don't intend to watch regularly in private tabs
  - crocodiletears 6y ago
    It's been an issue for quite a while, but it's becoming unbearable since they started really clamping down on 'extremism' (left and right) around November. Unfortunately, there's no tool quite like it online for getting access to such a wide swath of firsthand knowledge, opinon and experiences.
    - beagle3 6y ago
      Twitter has an option to just skip the algorithm and let you drink from the firehouse - switch to timeline view and put everyone you are following in “alarm” mode (otherwise, they’ll filter it as THEY see fit). Most of the people I care about post on both, and when there’s an important long form article they post a link to it (whether on Facebook or their private blog)
- myth2018 6y ago
  Interestingly, youtube did that on me for some time, then it stopped. It repeatedly unsubscribed me from channels I used to watch more often, but kept intact some subscriptions I didn't visit regularly. Facebook, by its turn, added some friends on my behalf. I was surprised some times to see a notification like "John Doe accepted you friendship request", but I'd never sent on. They also stopped doing that.
  - naravara 6y ago
    This sounds like someone else might be using your account.
    - myth2018 6y ago
      That was the first suspect, but I've found some other people complaining about the same thing
pedro1976 6y ago
If you want to go crazy with RSS and build your entire information stream on top of it, you might need some glue code that semi-automatically turns static markup to rss [0]. (Disclaimer: I am the author) [0] https://github.com/damoeb/rss-proxy https://github.com/damoeb/rss-proxy
- bmn__ 6y ago
  Please amend the documentation and compare your software against the established participants in this field. https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge https://github.com/DIYgod/RSSHub https://github.com/DIYgod/RSSHub
  - pedro1976 6y ago
    Thx for the heads up, I appended it to the readme.

crocodiletears 6y ago

I've had the opposite experience. Facebook's been actively unfollowing and hiding my political groups for me. Every few days I have to go through a list of pages, check to make sure I'm still following them, and interact with posts to keep them in my feed.

asddubs 6y ago
that seems like the point where you'd stop using facebook, when you're altering your behaviour to appease the algorithm, because it won't just let you control what you want to see anymore. although i admit I also open all youtube videos of categories i don't intend to watch regularly in private tabs
- crocodiletears 6y ago
  It's been an issue for quite a while, but it's becoming unbearable since they started really clamping down on 'extremism' (left and right) around November. Unfortunately, there's no tool quite like it online for getting access to such a wide swath of firsthand knowledge, opinon and experiences.
  - beagle3 6y ago
    Twitter has an option to just skip the algorithm and let you drink from the firehouse - switch to timeline view and put everyone you are following in “alarm” mode (otherwise, they’ll filter it as THEY see fit). Most of the people I care about post on both, and when there’s an important long form article they post a link to it (whether on Facebook or their private blog)
myth2018 6y ago
Interestingly, youtube did that on me for some time, then it stopped. It repeatedly unsubscribed me from channels I used to watch more often, but kept intact some subscriptions I didn't visit regularly. Facebook, by its turn, added some friends on my behalf. I was surprised some times to see a notification like "John Doe accepted you friendship request", but I'd never sent on. They also stopped doing that.
- naravara 6y ago
  This sounds like someone else might be using your account.
  - myth2018 6y ago
    That was the first suspect, but I've found some other people complaining about the same thing

pedro1976 6y ago

If you want to go crazy with RSS and build your entire information stream on top of it, you might need some glue code that semi-automatically turns static markup to rss [0]. (Disclaimer: I am the author) [0] https://github.com/damoeb/rss-proxy https://github.com/damoeb/rss-proxy

bmn__ 6y ago
Please amend the documentation and compare your software against the established participants in this field. https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge https://github.com/DIYgod/RSSHub https://github.com/DIYgod/RSSHub
- pedro1976 6y ago
  Thx for the heads up, I appended it to the readme.