• AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Facebook has made it pretty easy to quit by refusing to show you any of your friend’s content, and instead showing you a million different groups that you didn’t follow and don’t like.

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      8 months ago

      I remember when the algorithms started sorting by engagement rather than chronologically. I quickly came up with a workaround to keep my feed the way it was, but, eventually that workaround was removed. I still checked the website occasionally but noticed the overall tone becoming less vane, over sharing, people using it like journals and selfie bombing to more angry, rage filled, posting news articles, boomer cartoons and jpeg fuzzy memes. It took a major turn after 2016 elections in US. Instagram was my go to after that but in about a year or so the same sequence of bs started happening. Haven’t really engaged with either service since 2020 save for occasional things to check a couple times a month.

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        8 months ago

        I like to use the On This Day feature to revisit stuff from back when I actually enjoyed the website, and back when people would actually discuss things instead of just hitting a like button and moving on, but otherwise I don’t do anything on that site anymore. The last time I posted there was a couple years ago.

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      8 months ago

      It was bad enough when there was social pressure to always post happy things, so the feed was nothing but friends and friends of friends talking about their perfect lives (even if you knew the people involved were having typical life struggles). But, then Facebook went to algorithmic engagement-based order, and the angriest content was the content prioritized.

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        8 months ago

        What’s fucked up is that they determined strong emotions increase engagement, and they went right to hate. They could have gone with love, but since they’re hateful people, they went with what is familiar to their sad and pathetic souls.

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          8 months ago

          I think it’s more that hate works better. With love someone might just click the “like” button and move on, but with hate they feel like they need to reply, because you can’t just “like” that sort of thing.