Meta displayed a chart showing that the “percent of time spent viewing content posted by ‘friends’ ” has declined in the past two years, from twenty-two per cent to seventeen per cent on Facebook, and from eleven per cent to seven per cent on Instagram.
Yeah. By their design. If they would allow user control over what shows up in their feed, mine would prioritize friends’ content. I’m not the one choosing to turn my feed jnto AI slop based on my alleged interest in the topic.
This is exactly why I deleted Facebook and Instagram. It no longer served it’s only purpose.
One of the appeals of Bluesky (for now) is the Followimg feed that presents comments exclusively from people I follow, in chronological order.
Crazy that Facebook can’t deliver this anymore
They can, but choose not to
The technical complexity of showing a chronological feed of posts from subscribed accounts? Are you asking for one to scoff at thou peasant? You might as well request a toaster without bluetooth BAHAHAHA! BEGONE!
.order(created_at: :desc)I don’t have a point, but felt like typing it in Ruby. Maybe someone else will have something snarky to say.
Wooooosh
LMAO trolling used to be a bit more involved than simply omitting the /s…
Such an original, Reddit-style one liner. 😒
This is ironic because all the 40 year old chicks who are career users of FB since college, all cite the same justification for continuing to use it: “But all my photos and the current happenings of my friends”.
If you showed them epirical data that only 17% of what they consume on the platform is actually even tangentially related to their friends and family, maybe they’d finally decouple themselves from FB.
And all the photos look like shit because they’ve been recompressed in JPEG, and all the metadata is just gone.
and all the metadata is just gone.
Just recently implemented immich. This hurts real hard.
It’s worse with instagram. I debated switching to Pixelfed at first because no one I know is on it. But then I realized I barely see friends content on insta, so it’s not really different, at least on Pixelfed I don’t see adds and only see posts from people I follow.
This. I have to go out of my way to even see my wife’s posts (well, before I deleted Facebook).
2/3rds of my feed are ads.
This metric is bullshit because they fucked up the waters.
I just scrolled Facebook, and out of the 44 posts I came across 10 were from friends or pages I had liked. The rest was sponsored slop, or “you should follow this person” type posts.
No wonder the social interaction is down, when less than a quarter of posts I come across are from the reason to have Facebook.
I’m not friends with corporations, so don’t push me their shit.
Prime Facebook was 2007 - 2011/12. When they started algorithm-ing friends posts, that heralded the end. I don’t care that I haven’t interacted with friend XYZ for a long while, I’m still interested in seeing their stuff equally as much as friend ABC who I interact with daily
Agreed. 1/10 of the posts were from friends for me, and half of those friends posts were from one chronic Facebook acquaintance that I should unfriend.
I went through and unfriended a couple of hundred people that I need not be friends with on the platform anymore recently, and I’ve got to say I was impressed with how little my real friends actually post to Facebook. It wasn’t uncommon to see someone’s last post to be well before 2020 on there, over half a decade ago.
It leads me to believe that the concept of pushing out a comment to the Facebook news feed died a long time ago for the average millennial. People still probably comment in groups, but have set up privacy filters that prevent them from being shown publicly. Stories get used more, but it’s maybe 5-10 people posting the lions share of them.
Right? ‘ZOMG users aren’t viewing the contents of their friends!’, yeah, because you hide that shit behind ads and promoted content, dumb-ass.
Yeah I wonder who could possibly be responsible for that… Tis a mystery
It’s shitty ass hats like zuck that makes me appreciate Lemmy even more. Its the right amount of social media for me.
Bye guys, guess none of us are really here
I think, therefore I am.
Well I say Mark Zuckerberg is over.
“your honor, in my defense my website sucks. like really sucks. like try using it for a good purpose. it is inherently evil.”
You heard it, the robot said we can go outside again.
So you going to shut down Facebook right Mark? Right Mark?
Don’t threaten me with a good time, Mark.
Good. Social media was only ever the corporate commodified communications platforms.
Centralized for profit social media should be over.
Mark Zuckerberg Says For-Profit Social Media Is Over
ftfy
Exactly this. “We have maxed out the amount of money we can extract from people and have reached diminishing returns on profitability.”
Why can’t anyone just create a billion dollar company that makes something people like and then be happy they can consistently earn $200m per year? Maybe ask the people what kinds of features they want and improve the service to increase the value to users once you need something for your staff to do when the product is complete.
Because modest returns don’t attract investment, so whoever set it up would have to fund the startup out of pocket and never go public or sell the company off. Not quite impossible, but very unlikely (unless the world changes and investors start getting more sensible about profits).
Large corporations buy up disruptive companies like that
Love that “disruptive” is a valid term for companies like that.
It’s such an easy fix too. Create a separate wall that only contains your friends’ OC (not reshared garbage).
It’s about 3 posts per day for someone with 200 friends, but I’d take it.
Too late for that. We have TikTok now. Everyone needs a new dopamine hit every 3 seconds and god forbid you run out of new things in your feed.
The era of social media IS over. Even if you make a good one.
check out the Fediverse…
I’m here. Ain’t no billions of people rushing to join us.
Not necessarily a bad thing.
Agree. Lemmy doesn’t need to have as many users as other platforms to be good.
If ppl can’t understand what’s so good about Lemmy then they are just suckers who deserve to be taken advantage of by corporations.
So… original, unshittified Facebook?
I’m amazed that’s not what FB still is. I apparently bailed before the worst of it because I don’t recall seeing random people’s posts on my feed.
Last time I logged into Facebook I noticed a lot of the recommends included feeds of attractive women. I mean, I like women with gyatts, butt clearly their algos have been fine tuned on what kind of content they serve: sexual content and alt-right garbage
I miss the good old days when it was just updates from friends.
You actually can nearly do that. Facebook inexplicably showed me how a few weeks ago. If a friend reshares something, you’ll see it, but it removes all groups, etc. It was stunning how little content actually comes from friends.
On the Facebook site (I’m sure it can be done via app, too, but I didn’t look), click on the menu near the top right, then click Feeds (under Social). Then click on Friends on the left.
Hahaha, not a fast learner… Own it bro, FB is over…
Clearly the solution is to spread more conspiracy theories. People are obviously leaving due to the lack of conspiracy theories.
Social media said Mark Zuckerberg was over and sadly I think neither are right.
