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Re:The opt-out illusion: how we have acquiesced to losing ou... by ratww on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @04:42AM (#22533793)
I'd do something else before #3:

3. Unfollow everyone in order to disable the news feed.

I did this to reduce usage and force me to actually visit friends' profiles, but it did its job too well. In the end I noticed that I wasn't really interested in anything I couldn't know by chatting in some other app or in person. The only thing hooking me up was the news feed itself.

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Re:The opt-out illusion: how we have acquiesced to losing ou... by philpem on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @05:20AM (#22533969)
If unfollowing everyone is too much effort (or too much potential drama from people assuming unfollow = no longer friends), then there is another way. Someone mentioned the Newsfeed Eradicator plugin the other day -- it replaces the FB News Feed with a thought-provoking quote...!

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/news-feed-era...

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Re:The opt-out illusion: how we have acquiesced to losing ou... by vodkaPong on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @06:12AM (#22534196)
I've found that to be a really useful extension as well, stops you getting distracted by all the news feed posts when you just logged in to check an event or something.
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