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I always feel like people never discuss the elephant in the room, which is that whoever you are, your feed is dictated by the people and pages you have chosen t

I always feel like people never discuss the elephant in the room, which is that whoever you are, your feed is dictated by the people and pages you have chosen to follow. It doesn't matter what the platform is. If you give people the flexibility to craft their own feed, and they want to craft a feed full of hate and lies and nonsense, how can we ever stop them? Meanwhile, my feed has zero politics and is comprised almost entirely of retro video game stuff, plus a few local NYC groups. I kind of love it!

benoror 5y ago
FB should probably make it easier to identify and unsubscribe from those feedback loop silos
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pradn 5y ago
Twitter has ended up pretty good for me. 1) I set my location to the country Chad so I don't see popular trends that aren't very interesting, or serve as sources of outrage. 2) I use the word-based content filters to omit annoying politicians or topics from my feed. So much more peaceful now that I don't have to see people's outrage at the latest political enfant terrible. 3) I primarily follow primarily historians who make fantastic long threads, film critics I respect, movie/art channels. No crazy politics stuff. Few of my friends are on it so I don't have to see their stuff either. If I want the news, I just read a few major newspapers. It works well enough for me!
Jensson 5y ago
Many times people engage in behaviour they know is bad for them. See smoking, alcohol etc. Regulating the entities which makes that bad behaviour possible is a reasonable solution.
sevilo 5y ago
It used to be fun when it was just my friends, sure once in the while you get that annoying person who’s trying to live a completely different life on social media but overall funny memes, shitposting with friends, checking in at places. Until Facebook implemented the ultimate evil suggestion feature and brought in news articles then everything went to hell.

benoror 5y ago

FB should probably make it easier to identify and unsubscribe from those feedback loop silos

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pradn 5y ago

Twitter has ended up pretty good for me. 1) I set my location to the country Chad so I don't see popular trends that aren't very interesting, or serve as sources of outrage. 2) I use the word-based content filters to omit annoying politicians or topics from my feed. So much more peaceful now that I don't have to see people's outrage at the latest political enfant terrible. 3) I primarily follow primarily historians who make fantastic long threads, film critics I respect, movie/art channels. No crazy politics stuff. Few of my friends are on it so I don't have to see their stuff either. If I want the news, I just read a few major newspapers. It works well enough for me!

Jensson 5y ago

Many times people engage in behaviour they know is bad for them. See smoking, alcohol etc. Regulating the entities which makes that bad behaviour possible is a reasonable solution.

sevilo 5y ago

It used to be fun when it was just my friends, sure once in the while you get that annoying person who’s trying to live a completely different life on social media but overall funny memes, shitposting with friends, checking in at places. Until Facebook implemented the ultimate evil suggestion feature and brought in news articles then everything went to hell.