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by pronlover723
1276 days ago
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They'd increase usage by me if they let me tailor what I want to see. I NEVER want to see "so-and-so commented on ~~~". I never want to see "so-and-so liked ~~~". I never want to see "short" videos. But, FB doesn't let me turn them off so I get disgusted at how they are trying to shovel content at me and I stop looking. Same with Twitter (though I found tweetdeck solves much of this). Same with Instagram, trying to shovel content I didn't ask for in my face. Same with Youtube's dark pattern of trying to get you watch "Shorts" and if you close the row it says "Okay, I won't show you again for 30 days". "NO! FUCK YOU! I didn't ask you to show me again in 30 days!!" (and BTW I'm paying) Twitter does has that dark pattern as well. Delete something and it says "ok, we'll show you less of this" .. "NO! FUCK YOU. Don't show me any ever!" The result is that I barely use any of these services. Once a month or so I try again for some reason, boredom? and get pissed off and leave. Now some FB/Twitter/Youtube person will claim their metrics say that their dark patterns get people to use the service more. Ugh! |
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This was the nail in the coffin for me. I just want to see what my friends post in the order they post it. But Facebook mangled the feed so bad they drove me away as a user. They’re doing the same thing to Instagram. While it doesn’t show your friends acitivty, it also barely shows anything they post. One post from a friend. One suggested post. One ad. One suggested post. Another ad. Then another post from a friend. Then when you’re “all caught up” it’s just ads and suggested posts. Yes you can tap the logo then tap following to get a chronological feed but I want that to be the default.