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by tenebrisalietum 2494 days ago
Block the memes at the source. Each time I see it, I block it. If the people on your page are like mine, they are reposting from these meme groups and not manually uploading these pictures.

The result is my feed is pretty free of this garbage.

My block list is probably over 100 of these stupid groups.

I wish it could be exported and shared.

2 comments

I used to regularly block pages and posts that reached my feed that were from entities who weren’t in my immediate network. Pages people liked, news articles and their organizations. All these things that make Facebook money. I stopped reacting to anything that wasn’t made by someone in my network and cleared out my generated “interests” multiple times, but they’d always come back.

After being off it for a couple of years, whenever I look at someone’s feed I’m absolutely blown away by the saturation of things that are at best ads. It seems like 4/5 items on a timeline would be an update from something that wasn’t a directly-added friend. Facebook shoves the impersonal stuff in my face while all I wanted is the personal stuff.

I haven't seen anything come back after I block it. But I've only been doing this for about six months. I use the "Block all posts from XXX" option.
Back before FB fucked it up and I actually read what my friends were posting, I simply unfollowed those that posted memes. Problem solved (for me).