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I've long wished for an opportunity to filter my feed, so that I only see what people post themselves. But I guess fb force these things down my throat because
by matsemann 5y ago
I've long wished for an opportunity to filter my feed, so that I only see what people post themselves. But I guess fb force these things down my throat because no one actually posts anything anymore, except big life events like weddings or announcing a child. So people would realize fb is dead when it comes to keeping in touch with friends and family.
- okareaman 5y agoFacebook is dead as far as I'm concerned because I tested it. I quit all groups and unliked all pages. My feed just became ads and posts from friends. I have a couple of friends who like to post, but the vast majority don't post anything. It's a ghost town.
- silexia 5y agoI shit down my Facebook recently after my interactions with it became unhealthy.
- yung_steezy 5y agoI agree that sounds unhealthy
- emerged 5y agoIt’s a pretty weird place these days. There are a few friends who get like 7 trillion likes if they post that their baby farted, but many many other friend posts have literally 0 or very few likes. At some point I stopped commenting or Liking any post which already has more than ~10 Likes or comments. In some sense it feels really strange to me that people bother to engage with content where their engagement is essentially invisible within the crowd.
- smackeyacky 5y agoThis is interesting. Perhaps Facebook are partly encouraging the clickbait weirdness to give the continued impression to those that are still using it, that there is something to use. Over the last 4 years I found Facebook an entirely useless vehicle for customer engagement, instagram was marginally better but after the change that got rid of the time based sorting, it became useless as well. It wouldn't surprise me if Facebook has become a ghost town, inhabited only by those who have become addicted to the posts that feign engagement i.e. somebody is asking ME a question! I am important, I want to be heard. It might just be a complicated scheme to keep the share price high. It doesn't necessarily have to be something nefarious.
- aembleton 5y agoTrain the algorithm! Just exit Facebook as soon as you encounter one of these.
- bryan_w 5y agoYou can also just click the X in the upper right corner and say "hide all from <page>"
- OJFord 5y agoI did that aggressively for at least months before I ultimately deleted my account (in 2017), because it didn't make any difference, there was just a new 'page' to hide that I never wanted to see or expressed any interest in seeing in the first place.
- seoulmetro 5y agoI hid every page, person and group on my Facebook except maybe 3 or 4 whom don't post much or are enjoyable. It works. I can't even remember what normal Facebook looks like. I've lived like this for the last 5 years.
- JasonFruit 5y agoLAD Bible leaves, LAD Bible UK takes its place. Quizzes, Games, and Funnies leaves, Fun, Games, and Quizzes takes its place, world without end, amen.
- aasasd 5y agoNot that it would change FB's mess of an algo, but you probably can achieve some results with uBlock's custom filters, which are mostly written in CSS selectors. Find out the classes that shared posts get and slap them in the filters. There are also the ‘:has()’ selector and the search-by-text ‘has-text()’ selector to filter parent nodes by child nodes' content.
- ToFab123 5y agoTry take a look at this browser extension [No affiliate]. I can filter out a lot of stuff. https://socialfixer.com/ https://socialfixer.com/