[rickcarlino]

Social media companies became so obsessed about maximizing ROI on short form video content that they stopped being a platform to share with friends and turned into Temu Youtube. You won’t see your friends stuff on any of them because it’s designed to work that way. Group chats are the only way to have a meaningful conversation if you a casual non-technical Internet dweller.

[OhSoHumble]

All of that is intentional. There isn't enough money to be made connecting people. Revenue streams are driven by ads attached to media interaction. Connecting people is low engagement. We, as consumers, have rewarded this revenue model by proving that it works. If you don't want to contribute to it then don't use these large platforms.

[scoofy]

I suspect there is plenty of money there, just not enough to support a multinational conglomerate.

The natural monopoly of networks is what brought us all to social networks, and I suspect it is why they will fail. Niche networks run by a small team (which is what social networks were when we were the early adopters) seem like they can trivially sustain themselves.

The explosion of podcasting is exactly this, but for nontechnical people.

[0x53]

This is so sadly true. I nostalgically remember early social media with the linear feed of things directly from friends as being a fun and positive place.

[watwut]

Bsky actually uave linear followed accounts only feed.

[rationalist]

Facebook has it too, or at least they did as of last year when I last used Facebook.

On the desktop version of the website, click on the "Friends" "Feed" (and there might have been a sort by date as well you had to then click on).

[d1sxeyes]

It’s gone, but it was already too late.

Out of ten items on your feed, five would be adverts, three are reposts of some crappy influencer’s video or a meme or something, one is a friend’s marketplace listing, and if you’re lucky, the last one is a photo actually taken by a friend who you actually know.

[FireBeyond]

Nope, it's gone.

You don't get sorting options for that Feed. And depending on your luck that might be three clicks off the home page to even that (See More > Feeds > Friends).

[mbirth]

Twitter has it, too.

[watwut]

Mine stopped working that way some time after Musk tool over - I started to get complete crap from people I did not followed.

[tpm]

it still works in the web app - following -> recent - though I think I've got some browser extension to force that to be the default, otherwise it tended to revert to other tabs and ordering.

[newguy1000]

elon musk ruined your life, didnt he

[asdff]

So does instagram actually but it is sort of hidden.

[4ffad]

the business model is to divide and conquer my friend. wakey wakey...