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Now the ONE thing I loved about Twitter is going to be gone?

parineum 5y ago
I left Facebook shortly after they removed the chronological feed on your wall because it made it so I kept seeing the same few posts over and over again and missed a bunch of smaller posts that weren't high interaction. In retrospect, that was a necessary precursor to all the dark patterns they would later implement to the feed. It empowers the company to decide what users see and that's an incredibly valuable thing for a company with billions of eyeballs. The temptation to monetize that power will be irresistible. At the very least, "Sponsored Posts" incoming.
- gnicholas 5y ago
  Technically, FB still allows you to view a chronological feed, but for much of the past several years this mode has been broken. It shows me posts from 3 days ago at the top of the feed, even though I know that there are posts that are just a few hours old. I guess they moved fast and broke things.
  - Buttons840 5y ago
    Technically, what you described is not a chronological feed then.
    - gnicholas 5y ago
      When it works, it is chronological. It was just broken for a few years there (seems to work OK these days, at least for me). In the behavioral science parlance, I think this is called a 'nudge'.
  - mminer237 5y ago
    https://www.facebook.com/?sk=h_chr https://www.facebook.com/?sk=h_chr still works fine for me. Everything neatly increments up from 7 minutes old to 30 minutes old a couple pages down.
- ravenstine 5y ago
  That was such an annoying thing about Facebook. Not only would it show a lot of the same crap again and again, but most of what I wanted to see would only appear in my feed hours or days after everyone else saw it, meaning that any comments I might leave would never be seen by anyone. I quickly realized that my comments would never be seen (i.e. upvoted or replied to) if the post was more than a few hours old. No, Facebook, I'm not going to sit there obsessively refreshing the page and scrolling through dozens of pages of content just for a shot at others noticing my existence in your little play-world. Perhaps I'm not the kind of user Facebook wants. They probably reached the same conclusion as scam artists; make your platform unappealing to the users who won't continually lead to profit, but give it the right qualities so those who don't know any better keep falling into the trap and stay there.

I left Facebook shortly after they removed the chronological feed on your wall because it made it so I kept seeing the same few posts over and over again and missed a bunch of smaller posts that weren't high interaction. In retrospect, that was a necessary precursor to all the dark patterns they would later implement to the feed. It empowers the company to decide what users see and that's an incredibly valuable thing for a company with billions of eyeballs. The temptation to monetize that power will be irresistible. At the very least, "Sponsored Posts" incoming.

gnicholas 5y ago
Technically, FB still allows you to view a chronological feed, but for much of the past several years this mode has been broken. It shows me posts from 3 days ago at the top of the feed, even though I know that there are posts that are just a few hours old. I guess they moved fast and broke things.
- Buttons840 5y ago
  Technically, what you described is not a chronological feed then.
  - gnicholas 5y ago
    When it works, it is chronological. It was just broken for a few years there (seems to work OK these days, at least for me). In the behavioral science parlance, I think this is called a 'nudge'.
- mminer237 5y ago
  https://www.facebook.com/?sk=h_chr https://www.facebook.com/?sk=h_chr still works fine for me. Everything neatly increments up from 7 minutes old to 30 minutes old a couple pages down.
ravenstine 5y ago
That was such an annoying thing about Facebook. Not only would it show a lot of the same crap again and again, but most of what I wanted to see would only appear in my feed hours or days after everyone else saw it, meaning that any comments I might leave would never be seen by anyone. I quickly realized that my comments would never be seen (i.e. upvoted or replied to) if the post was more than a few hours old. No, Facebook, I'm not going to sit there obsessively refreshing the page and scrolling through dozens of pages of content just for a shot at others noticing my existence in your little play-world. Perhaps I'm not the kind of user Facebook wants. They probably reached the same conclusion as scam artists; make your platform unappealing to the users who won't continually lead to profit, but give it the right qualities so those who don't know any better keep falling into the trap and stay there.