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I started using FB again recently because a group of friends use it, and I regret it. It's so toxic. Even the reels/short videos posted there are absolutely tox

I started using FB again recently because a group of friends use it, and I regret it. It's so toxic. Even the reels/short videos posted there are absolutely toxic- full of pointless garbage mixed with outright fake stuff like "free energy". I'll keep it because of Groups, which are handy for what they are, but the moment those move elsewhere, I'm out.

awillen 4y ago
This is actually fairly easily fixed by watching non-garbage videos and giving negative feedback on the garbage ones (click the three dots and choose hide/see less like this - it's something like that). My reels are close to 100% videos of golden retrievers being adorable. That causes me to spend a little more time on FB than I otherwise would, which is exactly what FB wants, but I can live with myself frittering away a little time watching an adult golden meet a new golden puppy. Same thing works for Twitter - you can tune it pretty well by selecting "I'm not interested in this tweet" for all the crappy ones. After someone told me that, it took about a day before it stopped feeding me scam crypto trash.