Holy feck Facebook got really bad

Like I know this isn’t a shock to anyone. But it’s a super surprise to me. So since 2011 I was really busy with various educational or work stuff, and never had time to log in. When I did log in to post something random for family to see, I had that Fluffbusters extension that cuts out the extra shit that Meta adds to your feed.

So recently I was forced to use the FB app to do some IRL stuff related to Palestine. Holy shit the unfiltered site is garbage. You have to scroll through 10 or so unrelated pages to see your friends’ posts. And the sheer volume of paid Israeli stuff is mind blowing, despite me trying to tell the algorithm that I don’t like it. And despite me being friends with and liking shitloads of ML stuff, I keep getting Unilad level “let’s save a bunch of puppies” content. Like I get why people who use traditional social media become liberals or worse, I even found myself becoming a bit more lib looking at it.

Philosoraptor,
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It’s absolutely unusable. Early Facebook’s niche was actually really good and cool too: a service built around developing and maintaining the sort of relatively weak IRL social connections that would usually just decay. Like, something to keep up with and stay connected to your high school friends or college roommates or friendly acquaintance you met at the gym was actually really neat. A lot of people got a ton of value over that, and I think it did genuinely improve the world in some ways early on. But that shit isn’t profitable, so it couldn’t last.

Beaver,
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The algo for the front page feed got cranked up to Maximum Monetization, and it’s just a bizarre hodgepodge of content nowadays. There was actually a sort of golden age many years ago when a lot of my friends and family posted pictures and updates about their lives, and so scrolling my feed was a way to keep up with them.

I still use Facebook a lot for scheduling local public events, as I’ve found there’s a reasonable level of discoverability for local stuff. The groups feature works okay for small groups, but that’s getting swallowed by discord. Social media is a shitshow.

Skeleton_Erisma,
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I closed my Facebook account many moons ago as part of an old job’s requirement that we couldn’t use social media.

I recently got harangued into reopening one because the museum I volunteer at needs someone to manage their Facebook group

I hate it, lots…

CriticalResist8,

Facebook is a dinosaur. They’ve enabled monetization now and there’s tons of pages automatically posting AI Content (with AI descriptions) hour after hour, with bot replies too. It’s so bad. Definitely not the place to just talk to your IRL friends like it used to be. I also have to run ads for my job and TikTok has the best ROI, while Facebook charged me like 1$ per click lol, there’s no way anybody is paying that much for a click. TikTok’s was like 15 cents.

If you’ve seen the AI Jesus with cabin crew photos they’re from facebook. I’m starting to think some AI (chatGPT) told someone that this was a winning combination to post on Facebook and that’s why they started making those pictures specifically. Cause I don’t know what Jesus has to do with flight attendants lol.

ClimateChangeAnxiety,
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you’ve seen the AI Jesus with cabin crew photos they’re from facebook. I’m starting to think some AI (chatGPT) told someone that this was a winning combination to post on Facebook and that’s why they started making those pictures specifically. Cause I don’t know what Jesus has to do with flight attendants lol.

I assumed the AIs were looking at which of their posts do better and doing more of those, and ones with Jesus and apparently airline crews were some of the most successful early on so it just keeps repeating and getting worse

Dessa,
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It’s dogshit. I only use it for checking in on my favorite food truck these days

Rojo27,
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I recently cut down on my time on facebook when I got logged out of it and didn’t bother resetting my password. But even when I was using it it was such a fucking cesspool. I had made an effort to block out content from pages I didn’t like, but I would still get a ton of right wing posts.

Assian_Candor,
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Only boomers use Facebook

Xx_Aru_xX,
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Don’t get me started on the reels, half the stuff there falls under SA

BeamBrain,
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The fuck?

TheWolfOfSouthEnd,

They aren’t wrong. I’ve haven’t seen anything personally, but I’ve seen enough comments that both Facebook and Insta reels are full of CP material.

Lemmygradwontallowme,
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And that’s why they wanna ban Tiktok…

They don’t want no competition against the hegemony…

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