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> I manually unfollowed almost every friend and every page I followed a couple years ago. ... I ended up enjoying Facebook again, even if in a very different wa
by PragmaticPulp 5y ago
> I manually unfollowed almost every friend and every page I followed a couple years ago. ... I ended up enjoying Facebook again, even if in a very different way.
Facebook and other social media platforms actually gives users a lot of tools to tailor their feeds. Muting or unfollowing people (leaving the friend connection intact) should be the go-to operation for anyone who's always posting things you aren't interested in.
The other half of tailoring your feed is learning to embrace the like button. If you see something you like, click the like button. Sounds simple, but I know a lot of people who refuse to click the like button because they dislike the concept of like counts, but they forget that it's one of the primary mechanisms for telling the algorithms what you want to see. The more you like content, the more you'll see it.
- tmp_anon_22 5y agoDo they provide bulk tooling or automation APIs to do it effectively?
- ohashi 5y agoI feel like they also are trying to send me content that upsets me to get me to engage. Mute one conspiracy theorist and all the others start getting moved up in my feed.
- colejohnson66 5y agoWell, you “engaged” with the muted piece by interacting with it (even if it’s to mute it), so you must be interested in that content, no? /s
- denton-scratch 5y agoWhy the /s? Declaring that you dislike something is engagement, as much as declaring that you like it. No way will I ever engage with like/dislike buttons. My preference is that organisations like Faceache should never learn that I even exist. I don't have a problem with ranking my feed, by the way; I don't have a feed. I've never had a Faceache account, and that fact causes me zero grief.
- colejohnson66 5y agoThe /s is because: while it is engagement with the platform, the act of muting someone is me expressing my intent to not want to engage with that account or similar ones.
- ohashi 5y agoDon't worry, I understood.
- bryan_w 5y agoIt would nice if they offered some sort of lambda that could run against your entire newsfeed inventory that would rank the stories. You want most recent? OC first? MSI first? Fine it's just a simple function that you would be able to provide (in hack). This way advanced users get the feeds they want without FB worrying about creating another "API" to be discovered by NYT journalists on a slow news day
- tomjen3 5y agoIf I click the like button, that is a public action, others can see it. Also there is no dislike button. FB needs to understand that when I say I don't like an ad it means I don't like it, and should not only immediately apologize but also ensure I don't see ads like that again, if they want me to use their platform.