[quantumwannabe]

I want to go to Facebook to keep connected with friends and family, not to see cringy memes and clickbait 'news' articles. Zuckerberg made the right decision to focus on users instead of publishers, and I think these changes will change Facebook for the better.

[kinkrtyavimoodh]

Unfortunately, a lot of the times it's friends and family that post these cringy memes.

[prepend]

This is certainly true. But at least with my friends and family, I learn them over time.

With “news” sources it requires a constant pain to vet them.

Also, with FB I can just block shares by source so over time I’ve blocked out my relatives’ stupid posts by Brietbart and Being Liberal.

[paulddraper]

And each required explicit acceptance of a friend request.

As opposed to a gaggle of news sources that crop up whenever.

[kinkrtyavimoodh]

The gaggle of sources needed you to either like their pages or have friends who like or comment on them.

[ivcha]

I have to say that this is almost completely the opposite of what I want from Facebook, given that "cringe memes and clickbait" is an orthogonal issue. To me, great value lies in the opportunity for people to organize into smaller communities and post various things about those communities, be they political or not, and at the same time being able to receive feedback (in the form of comments). Unfortunately, the sad truth is that this is the only platform for such an activity for most of those communities.

[mercer]

I'd say those two are compatible. For me what matters is getting updates from friends, family, and groups I care about. If my feed was limited to that, the new articles would instantly be less clickbaitey or cringey.