• merdaverse@lemmy.world
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      “How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us?”

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    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.

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      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

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      I miss when the Instagram homepage showed all your friends’ new posts before it showed recommended stuff. Now it’s all interwoven

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      This is exactly why I deleted Facebook and Instagram. It no longer served it’s only purpose.

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      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

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      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.

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            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.

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      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.

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      Right? ‘ZOMG users aren’t viewing the contents of their friends!’, yeah, because you hide that shit behind ads and promoted content, dumb-ass.

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      Also if I was just looking at friends’ content, it would be empty haha. Couldn’t scroll infinitely.

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      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.

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    Washed up trend chaser monopolist wannabe millionaire! Of course your social platforms are over: YOU MADE THEM SHIT!

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    Social media said Mark Zuckerberg was over and sadly I think neither are right.

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    hell yeah! rest in hell

    but tbh it’s not, old people love it