[grishka]

These paid offerings should include not only an ad-free experience, but also getting rid of all the dark patterns and other manipulative crap Meta loves doing in their apps and services. You know, preferences that actually stick forever, notifications that only notify you of things that actually happened, feeds that only contain content from accounts you follow and don't force-feed you recommendations, all that.

[chaostheory]

Ironically, this is why I stopped using meta social offerings as much as I used to and why I turned off notifications for those apps. I’m sure many people can say the same.

[parpfish]

in theory switch to a user-pays model should align the incentives of the company with user satisfaction rather than the ads-pay model where the incentives is aligned to maximize engagement.

i'm not optimistic that'll happen.

[notyourwork]

It depends on how you define satisfaction. If company measures it as usage, that aligns with algorithms that encourage doom scrolling.