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by notacoward 1347 days ago
I feel I have to push back on that a bit. "Novelty of the content" is not the be-all and end-all for everyone. Fine if it is for you, but some people might actually like seeing stuff from people they know on Facebook and that's fine too. (The fact that Facebook drifted away from that is one of its biggest flaws IMO and it's good to see that they're drifting back.) Some people might like following particular subreddits, or particular people on Tumblr, because of a certain non-algorithmic taste in content, and that's fine too. Not everyone wants or should want the same thing from social media. Overgeneralizing from one's own experiences or preferences to the entire rest of the world is a plague. Let's not spread it. Celebrate diversity and choice instead.