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Just hide every content farm I find, and my feed is my old school friends day to day lives, local marketplace ads, and DnD Mini-painting groups. The worst thing
by corpdronejuly 5y ago
Just hide every content farm I find, and my feed is my old school friends day to day lives, local marketplace ads, and DnD Mini-painting groups. The worst thing I see are ads that are irrelevant, or my uncles deranged rants about his local politics.
Took me about 2 weeks of hitting hide from content farms to train the algo to steer me away from that junk.
- bluGill 5y agoI've been doing this for a few days and things are getting better. However I still spend a lot of time hitting hide all from...
- nonfamous 5y agoHmm, I wonder if Facebook could do that automatically? Like, write an algorithm to detect content farms and automatically hide them from your newsfeed. I wonder why they’ve never done that…
- corpdronejuly 5y agoThey have that kind of algorithm, but most people want, or at least behave as though they want, outrage bait, and cute content farm affirmations. The moment you take a moment to be proactive and have ownership over your experience the algorithm happily shows you less crap and more people.
- wizzwizz4 5y agoThey optimise for engagement. I engage with content farms.
- j16sdiz 5y agoJust like the spam filter, “algorithm” won’t be 100% effective. Unlike spam, the content farm spreads organically.