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> All in all, it feels like Facebook thinks I'm an idiot and treats me accordingly. This is the way of social media algorithms. I suspect it makes sense be cau
by B-Con 5y ago
> All in all, it feels like Facebook thinks I'm an idiot and treats me accordingly.
This is the way of social media algorithms. I suspect it makes sense be cause the majority of users are indeed "idiots", in the sense of doing a poor job managing their subscription feeds and such. I'm sure they have tons of data showing how they improve user retention in aggregate by treating them like idiots.
But those of us willing to build and curate our own experience, we're the edge case not worth accommodating.
- forgotmypw17 5y agoWhen you say that people are doing a "poor job managing their subscription feeds and such", it almost sounds like you think that's possible using Facebook's interface?
- B-Con 5y agoI don't use Facebook anymore, but in the past... I guess? At a minimum, you could unfollow people/pages that were too low signal:noise to be worthwhile, and mute the ones that you wanted to follow but not here from. Crude, but easy way to ditch a lot of the noise. But people didn't really use those basic tools. They just followed... everything... didn't mute the annoying family they were obliged to friend, and complained when their feed sucked. It's hard for me to imagine Facebook et. al. providing useful controls that people will actually use that doesn't reduce down to "give us some signal and our AI will magically figure out the right thing". And basically that's the extreme version of what they have now.