[mparnisari]

Okay, so Facebook started as a way to interconnect people. But it's a business, so it has to make money to survive. So they added ads. And now my feed is 99% ads, 1% updates from my friends. Sooooo mission accomplished, right? Right?

[1970-01-01]

Facebook was started as a way for college boys to gleam full names, pictures, and other personal information of college girls. When it was just this, it was actually wonderful and mostly innocent kids having fun. But Zuck was greedy, and eventually it evolved into yet another of the online behemoths that can only thrive by selling as much of your private data as it can get away with. As such, it is no longer special, and therefore it is ripe for disruption.

[exe34]

you get updates from your friends? the only reason I have Facebook is to see pictures of cats, but it insists on showing me hamas propaganda ai-slop.

[mparnisari]

Yes. I get updates from my local community

[concerndc1tizen]

There is no shared experience of social media - that's what makes it hard to talk about, and keeps everyone in disagreement, because everyone has different perspectives. By design.

[exe34]

I think it's my own fault, I should never have engaged with the numpties. But I do wish the Facebook feed would include more stuff from the cats groups I follow instead of the rage bait.

[jbl0ndie]

I guess that's enshittification for you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification