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by Zak 1694 days ago
I repeated the count with a chronological feed, which is possible to get in a desktop browser with facebook.com/?sk=h_chr

Shared third-party content: 16

Original text: 5

Promoting own event: 4

Original image/video: 11

Directly-posted image of third-party content: 0

Page promoting product: 1

Page promoting media: 5

Group activity: 8

What would really make Facebook better for me is an algorithm that prefers original content. It might not be enough if that was something I could enable myself because what gets interaction from others affects what people post.