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Re:Facebook’s algorithm isn’t surfacing one-third of Chicago... by twelvedogs on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @09:39AM (#14147588)
i'm in this situation as well, i've moved to a slack group with my work friends and direct messaging with others, facebook was just a shitty way to talk to people i don't really care about where my posts were spirited away almost immediately

0.5% is being generous, i had almost no interaction with people i cared about while i was on there and i'm glad i've switched to other platforms where they aren't as interested in feeding me their stuff and just letting people talk

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Re:Facebook’s algorithm isn’t surfacing one-third of Chicago... by inetknght on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @10:26AM (#14147909)
FYI Slack could easily do the same thing. And indeed, being a closed system, what protection do you have against it?
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Re:Facebook’s algorithm isn’t surfacing one-third of Chicago... by VLM on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @10:34AM (#14147965)
That would utterly annihilate its corporate use if there was even a rumor they randomly censored content like operations and QA/QC discussion. My company also pays extra money to slack for the "we log everything for your e-discovery enjoyment" so there would be substantial legal issues if they randomly started hiding stuff we're paying to be e-discovered. Slack has problems, but weird censorship stuff isn't one of them.

Weird as it probably sounds, FB sucks for humans because its users are people not corporations.

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