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Facebook and Instagram to Unleash AI-Generated ‘Users’ No One Asked For
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this post was submitted on 31 Dec 2024
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Facebook is near unusable now, the feed is 99% fake politically charged shit. I report it all as spam, promoting hate/violence/terrorism, and block the users, but a bunch more just show up the next day.
This is me too. I'm still on Facebook for some family contacts and a couple of useful groups. Years ago I could spend hours a day there. Now I spend maybe 15-30 minutes each morning scrolling for friend/family updates and group content - and hitting "Hide all from ..." on every single bit of unsolicited content. I was reporting and blocking them, but I've decided it probably doesn't achieve anything and it was too many taps/clicks.
Instagram is similar - I used to spend hours there too but now I only go to check if there's progress on one car build I'm following and scroll for maybe 5-10 minutes and I'm out for the day.
Keep doing it! My feed is almost entirely people I know or groups I've chosen. I've blocked probably hundreds of advertisers. Now it's like quarterly or so when they refresh their advertising scheme that I have to block maybe a handful more.
Just stop using bro
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/431970-fb-clean-my-feeds-5-02 makes you realize how empty the Facebook actually is.
The amount of irrelevant content that FB sticks in the default feed is just ridiculous. I'll get a couple posts from friends near the top, but as i scroll the ratio changes until nearly nothing is from friends or FoF. And it's all this garbage content that FB thinks I want to see, like I watch one cake decorating video and then more of them show up and keep showing up, and im not sure how to get rid of them.
What you have to do is create feeds of your friends (and GD FB limits the number of friends you can put in a feed) and browse that instead.
You’ve described my limited FB experience. After refusing to join FB since the 00s, I joined FB a few years ago to get better access to the Marketplace. (Craigslist has gone to shit).
I joined a few groups that interested me and then the constant political bombardment started in the more mainstream groups.
Small niche FB groups are a night and day difference compared to some of the more contemporary groups I’ve seen.
Bot algorithms definitely target large groups with lots of activity. The resulting increased activity due to algorithms just amplify it further.
I just try to stick to my smaller groups to avoid all the mess.
I use clean my feeds grease monkey script to hide it and only show my friends and groups I subscribed to and it makes it so easy to see how much of things that it shows is just their stuff and how dead the Facebook really is.