[mrweasel]

But do anyone actually post anything anymore. My account got closed in 2016/17 when I refused to accept their new terms of service. Up until that point I had pretty aggressively filtered my feed down to only things posted directly by people I knew. I think I checked in maybe once every two weeks and spend 2 - 5 minutes catching up. No one posted anything, it was all likes and shared posts.

My wife wanted to show me an article, posted via Facebook the other evening and I asked if I could scroll around a bit, out of curiosity. There was nothing but ads, post by companies, which I also count as ads and a few article about knitting. Facebook is no more personal that usenet was in the olden days, but it is at the same time an engine that just keeps pushing paid and "organic" ads for stuff for you to buy... Stuff you do not need.

[bluGill]

There are posts by real humans - but you are correct Facebook does their best to make them hard to find and rare. I aggressively block everything but real posts, and it is still hard to find real posts.

[carlosjobim]

Almost nobody is posting on Facebook anymore. Instagram has taken over that niche. Facebook is in free fall and has to fill in the feed with anything - anything! Meaning many more ads, AI slop and complete garbage from all over the world.