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by fredley 3145 days ago
I've quit, but not entirely. I just unfollowed everyone. My newsfeed is blank, it doesn't even have ads amazingly. Without the feed, I still get the upsides of Facebook (I can communicate with people on a platform they almost all use, I can organise events easily), but (along with a suite of tracker-blockers) remove almost all the downsides.

https://blog.mamota.net/posts/solving-facebook/
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gre 3145 days ago
You can use News Feed Eradicator Chrome plugin and Facebook becomes a chat app without having to unfollow everyone.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/news-feed-eradicat...

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K2L8M11N2 3145 days ago
You can visit https://messenger.com for just the chat, without any extensions.
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fredley 3145 days ago
Doesn't work on mobile. The unfollow method works everywhere.
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Disruptive_Dave 3145 days ago
Same here, and added the FB Purity extension on top of it. It's glorious to visit FB today and see the same 3 posts I saw yesterday (I follow a few media co's). It's slowly gotten me out of the habit of randomly checking in to see what's going on; when nothing is going on, you start forgetting to check in.
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firepoet 3145 days ago
Thank you for offering this middle way. I am doing this now.
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