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Re:Facebook is an attack on the open web by xadhominemx on Thursday June 01, 2017 @06:13PM (#14465377)
you know you can sort your newsfeed to "most recent" right? And mute your obnoxious friends from appearing in your newsfeed. You can also hide posts from particular websites from appearing on your newsfeed.

In a short period of time, that would solve 90% of your problems.

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Re:Facebook is an attack on the open web by maksimum on Thursday June 01, 2017 @07:03PM (#14465741)
> you know you can sort your newsfeed to "most recent" right?

Just looked through settings and wasn't able to find anything for order of posts in news feed.

> And mute your obnoxious friends from appearing in your newsfeed.

Yep this is pretty easy to do.

> You can also hide posts from particular websites from appearing on your newsfeed.

This isn't helpful since you cannot block the entire class of "transitive" posts. Eg a Honda ad because a friend of mine liked a Honda page. Sure I can block Honda. But Toyota or Volkswagen can still show up until I block them individually...

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Re:Facebook is an attack on the open web by xadhominemx on Thursday June 01, 2017 @07:41PM (#14466036)
It's not in settings, it's in the News Feed toggle on the top of the navigation pane on the top LHS of the home page.

And I think after a couple weeks hiding posts you'll significantly reduce the variety of content hitting your newsfeed.

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