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Generally fb has trended to worse rather than better. I already passed my personal tipping point years ago and quit fb.

by josefritzishere 2y ago

tptacek 2y ago
It is what it is. It's a hotspot for local politics, so quitting it isn't really an option for me.
- yieldcrv 2y ago
  All the burning man camps I get invited to are a bunch of Gen X-ers conferring on Facebook groups so I wind up making a new Facebook account once a year for a few months although could see this moving to Discord across those same age ranges, I’m in some local groups there which overlap with festivals/events/things like the burn.
  - Karrot_Kream 2y ago
    Yeah younger millenials and GenZ tend to do this sort of conversation on Discord.
    - yieldcrv 2y ago
      yeah exactly, its now a better platform and has enough critical mass. With Nitro/Discord's paid plan you can change your profile per server if you identify different ways in different groups I've seen Gen X-ers be notoriously inflexible about considering Discord or anything besides Facebook Groups, but as they say: nobody can prevent you from becoming like your parents I tell that cohort "you can't Google this, you have to join the platform and search that channel", and they balk as if their Facebook Group that's segregating them is any different back to burning man specifically, at this point it seems like I can get invited to different camps, so I'm excited about that. mixed age groups, stays fresh
      - Karrot_Kream 2y ago
        > I've seen Gen X-ers be notoriously inflexible about considering Discord or anything besides Facebook Groups, but as they say: nobody can prevent you from becoming like your parents Yeah I'm a millenial with older and younger friends. I found that around 35 +- 4 years you generally have people get more annoyed and flippant at change. I get it, at this age you're probably at the peak of both career and life responsibilities, and you want to focus your energy on your family/career/other loved ones, and the last thing you want to do is learn something new for doing what you've been doing for the last 18 years (chatting about something online.) But it's been pretty fascinating watching the change as my older millenial/young GenX friends are getting into Back In My Day conversations while my GenZ friends talk about new fashions and music.
      - grahamj 2y ago
        Every Xer I know left FB years ago.
- viraptor 2y ago
  It's also the marketplace in some countries. Wanna sell some furniture locally? It may be close to the only option.
  - bag_boy 2y ago
    Just wait until they release a job board. They’ll figure this out soon.
    - disgruntledphd2 2y ago
      They tried this years ago, but didn't make it work.
      - bag_boy 2y ago
        Yeah, but same story with the marketplace. There’s a lot of hourly jobs that need to be filled. Restaurant jobs really…
wat10000 2y ago
It’s amazingly bad. My feed is just endless blatantly obvious engagement bait, interspersed with occasional posts from people I actually want to see.
internet101010 2y ago
Same. I deleted my account in like 2018. Since then Marketplace has more or less destroyed Craigslist. So two months ago I tried to create an account strictly for Marketplace. My email, phone, and location have all changed since 2018. Despite verifying phone and doing the most extreme KYC step of taking a picture of myself with my ID I still could not make a new account. So maybe they should focus on that?
- tgma 2y ago
  SAD! Craigslist was a much better product and community even without the luxury of identity verification. It had some obvious spam but by and large worked fine once you got the hang of it. Marketplace is a cesspool of lowballers and sex workers with some shitty ML sprinkled on it, underneath it all some slow and clunky RPCs that need refresh all the time. Forget about the sucky product. Who has Facebook been hiring in the past decade that built that technical crapshoot.

Generally fb has trended to worse rather than better. I already passed my personal tipping point years ago and quit fb.

tptacek 2y ago

It is what it is. It's a hotspot for local politics, so quitting it isn't really an option for me.

yieldcrv 2y ago
All the burning man camps I get invited to are a bunch of Gen X-ers conferring on Facebook groups so I wind up making a new Facebook account once a year for a few months although could see this moving to Discord across those same age ranges, I’m in some local groups there which overlap with festivals/events/things like the burn.
- Karrot_Kream 2y ago
  Yeah younger millenials and GenZ tend to do this sort of conversation on Discord.
  - yieldcrv 2y ago
    yeah exactly, its now a better platform and has enough critical mass. With Nitro/Discord's paid plan you can change your profile per server if you identify different ways in different groups I've seen Gen X-ers be notoriously inflexible about considering Discord or anything besides Facebook Groups, but as they say: nobody can prevent you from becoming like your parents I tell that cohort "you can't Google this, you have to join the platform and search that channel", and they balk as if their Facebook Group that's segregating them is any different back to burning man specifically, at this point it seems like I can get invited to different camps, so I'm excited about that. mixed age groups, stays fresh
    - Karrot_Kream 2y ago
      > I've seen Gen X-ers be notoriously inflexible about considering Discord or anything besides Facebook Groups, but as they say: nobody can prevent you from becoming like your parents Yeah I'm a millenial with older and younger friends. I found that around 35 +- 4 years you generally have people get more annoyed and flippant at change. I get it, at this age you're probably at the peak of both career and life responsibilities, and you want to focus your energy on your family/career/other loved ones, and the last thing you want to do is learn something new for doing what you've been doing for the last 18 years (chatting about something online.) But it's been pretty fascinating watching the change as my older millenial/young GenX friends are getting into Back In My Day conversations while my GenZ friends talk about new fashions and music.
    - grahamj 2y ago
      Every Xer I know left FB years ago.
viraptor 2y ago
It's also the marketplace in some countries. Wanna sell some furniture locally? It may be close to the only option.
- bag_boy 2y ago
  Just wait until they release a job board. They’ll figure this out soon.
  - disgruntledphd2 2y ago
    They tried this years ago, but didn't make it work.
    - bag_boy 2y ago
      Yeah, but same story with the marketplace. There’s a lot of hourly jobs that need to be filled. Restaurant jobs really…

wat10000 2y ago

It’s amazingly bad. My feed is just endless blatantly obvious engagement bait, interspersed with occasional posts from people I actually want to see.

internet101010 2y ago

Same. I deleted my account in like 2018. Since then Marketplace has more or less destroyed Craigslist. So two months ago I tried to create an account strictly for Marketplace. My email, phone, and location have all changed since 2018. Despite verifying phone and doing the most extreme KYC step of taking a picture of myself with my ID I still could not make a new account. So maybe they should focus on that?

tgma 2y ago
SAD! Craigslist was a much better product and community even without the luxury of identity verification. It had some obvious spam but by and large worked fine once you got the hang of it. Marketplace is a cesspool of lowballers and sex workers with some shitty ML sprinkled on it, underneath it all some slow and clunky RPCs that need refresh all the time. Forget about the sucky product. Who has Facebook been hiring in the past decade that built that technical crapshoot.