[criddell]

> Facebook deprioritizes (shadowbans?) posts that link off of their platform

That tells you that's not what it's for. It would be like posting your resume on FB and LinkedIn and then pointing out that FB led to fewer job offers than LinkedIn. Different platforms, different purposes.

Have you tried Feedly or Inoreader or Flipboard or The Old Reader or any other RSS services that popped up after Google Reader was killed?

[BriggyDwiggs42]

>That tells you that's not what it's for. It would be like posting your resume on FB and LinkedIn and then pointing out that FB led to fewer job offers than LinkedIn. Different platforms, different purposes.

Only insofar as the purpose of the platform is to generate ad revenue. The contents of the posts were semantically identical and they were made to the same platform; your example involves the same post to two different platforms.

[criddell]

> Only insofar as the purpose of the platform is to generate ad revenue.

Well, yeah. I'm not surprised that they don't promote posts containing links to their competitors.

I wonder what the outcome would have been if you had instead linked to Instagram or Threads? I would guess those have a smaller penalty.

[BriggyDwiggs42]

Is your critique that it’s unsurprising? I agree, but the original comment was complaining about how this practice kills the feeling of older social platforms where you could share whatever with your friends.

[HanClinto]

> That tells you that's not what it's for. It would be like posting your resume on FB and LinkedIn and then pointing out that FB led to fewer job offers than LinkedIn. Different platforms, different purposes.

In this case, I made two copies of the same post on the same platform. The only difference was whether the contents of the post were hosted on FB or if they were hosted on a competitor's platform.

It's not a question of medium (LinkedIn vs. Facebook). It's a question of algorithmic prioritization within the same platform.

Facebook deprioritizes my posts when I include hyperlinks to external websites -- I suspect especially if those sites don't run Meta ads.

It was the same video with the same text. The only difference was a hyperlink.

I want to support bloggers and content creators that I like (on a variety of platforms). Facebook skewed their algorithm to disproportionately show content hosted on their domains. I understand why they do that (advertising $$$ and "engagement" metrics) -- I just don't appreciate what it does to the user experience.

> Have you tried Feedly or Inoreader or Flipboard or The Old Reader or any other RSS services that popped up after Google Reader was killed?

Yes -- I tried Feedly and Inoreader. Maybe I should give The Old Reader a shot?

The feed-reading part of those clones is fine -- but again, what I miss is the sharing and discussion that could happen so easily within my social network with Google+ and Google Reader. The RSS piece is almost the least important piece for me.