During testimony at Meta’s antitrust trial, the Facebook founder’s argument was, in so many words, that platforms like his are not what they used to be.
Meta displayed a chart showing that the “percent of time spent viewing content posted by ‘friends’ ” has declined in the past two years, from twenty-two per cent to seventeen per cent on Facebook, and from eleven per cent to seven per cent on Instagram.
Yeah. By their design. If they would allow user control over what shows up in their feed, mine would prioritize friends’ content. I’m not the one choosing to turn my feed jnto AI slop based on my alleged interest in the topic.
I just scrolled Facebook, and out of the 44 posts I came across 10 were from friends or pages I had liked. The rest was sponsored slop, or “you should follow this person” type posts.
No wonder the social interaction is down, when less than a quarter of posts I come across are from the reason to have Facebook.
I’m not friends with corporations, so don’t push me their shit.
Prime Facebook was 2007 - 2011/12. When they started algorithm-ing friends posts, that heralded the end. I don’t care that I haven’t interacted with friend XYZ for a long while, I’m still interested in seeing their stuff equally as much as friend ABC who I interact with daily
The technical complexity of showing a chronological feed of posts from subscribed accounts? Are you asking for one to scoff at thou peasant? You might as well request a toaster without bluetooth BAHAHAHA! BEGONE!
It’s not even new stuff. Last I had looked (a couple years ago) it would show me friendss posts from last week with no sign of anything new, and I knew they had posted newer things than that. It was completely unusable. I’d see the same stale old posts for days
This is ironic because all the 40 year old chicks who are career users of FB since college, all cite the same justification for continuing to use it: “But all my photos and the current happenings of my friends”.
If you showed them epirical data that only 17% of what they consume on the platform is actually even tangentially related to their friends and family, maybe they’d finally decouple themselves from FB.
Yeah. By their design. If they would allow user control over what shows up in their feed, mine would prioritize friends’ content. I’m not the one choosing to turn my feed jnto AI slop based on my alleged interest in the topic.
I just scrolled Facebook, and out of the 44 posts I came across 10 were from friends or pages I had liked. The rest was sponsored slop, or “you should follow this person” type posts.
No wonder the social interaction is down, when less than a quarter of posts I come across are from the reason to have Facebook.
I’m not friends with corporations, so don’t push me their shit.
Prime Facebook was 2007 - 2011/12. When they started algorithm-ing friends posts, that heralded the end. I don’t care that I haven’t interacted with friend XYZ for a long while, I’m still interested in seeing their stuff equally as much as friend ABC who I interact with daily
One of the appeals of Bluesky (for now) is the Followimg feed that presents comments exclusively from people I follow, in chronological order.
Crazy that Facebook can’t deliver this anymore
They can, but choose not to
They used to, but it didn’t boost ad engagement so they stopped.
And these new njmbers have shown that users are choosing not to use facebook.
The technical complexity of showing a chronological feed of posts from subscribed accounts? Are you asking for one to scoff at thou peasant? You might as well request a toaster without bluetooth BAHAHAHA! BEGONE!
.order(created_at: :desc)I don’t have a point, but felt like typing it in Ruby. Maybe someone else will have something snarky to say.
Wooooosh
LMAO trolling used to be a bit more involved than simply omitting the /s…
That’s not a can’t, it’s a get-paid-a-shitload-of-money-to-not.
This is exactly why I deleted Facebook and Instagram. It no longer served it’s only purpose.
I miss when the Instagram homepage showed all your friends’ new posts before it showed recommended stuff. Now it’s all interwoven
It’s not even new stuff. Last I had looked (a couple years ago) it would show me friendss posts from last week with no sign of anything new, and I knew they had posted newer things than that. It was completely unusable. I’d see the same stale old posts for days
This. I have to go out of my way to even see my wife’s posts (well, before I deleted Facebook).
2/3rds of my feed are ads.
This metric is bullshit because they fucked up the waters.
Try blocking her, the algorithm will prioritize her posts if you do.
Well, I deleted my account so that won’t work. But that’s crazy if that’s true (not doubting you).
I said it as a joke but I suspect it might be true, too. I see a lot of people complaining that they see too many posts of people they block.
This is ironic because all the 40 year old chicks who are career users of FB since college, all cite the same justification for continuing to use it: “But all my photos and the current happenings of my friends”.
If you showed them epirical data that only 17% of what they consume on the platform is actually even tangentially related to their friends and family, maybe they’d finally decouple themselves from FB.
And all the photos look like shit because they’ve been recompressed in JPEG, and all the metadata is just gone.
Just recently implemented immich. This hurts real hard.
Right? ‘ZOMG users aren’t viewing the contents of their friends!’, yeah, because you hide that shit behind ads and promoted content, dumb-ass.
Also if I was just looking at friends’ content, it would be empty haha. Couldn’t scroll infinitely.
That’s the reason I log into Facebook like once every week or two.
I like to make sure someone didn’t die, and I miss the funeral.
you’ve got a point. they’re trying to redefine what “friends” are. and they’re succeeding.