| > There has actually been a friends-only feed on FB for years. Timelines -> Friends filters everything down. I remember when this was called "Lists", and I carefully gathered acquaintances into lists. When I wanted to check in with particular list, I clicked on the list. Then the lists sidebar disappeared (but you could still get the functionality if you knew the URL / argument structure). Then the functionality disappeared. I'm sure some product/UX staff did career making things on a metric somewhere. > The problem? Nobody I care about posts anymore. The "flywheel" is broken. Why post when there's no guarantee who/anyone will see it amongst a firehose of bait-y and often angry stuff? This is part of the anti-flywheel which draws towards doomscroll. > group chats Group chats have the baseline virtue of knowing who your audience is. They're missing other virtues, but that's probably another conversation. |