Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site less divisive

Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by 2019-nCoV on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @06:25PM (#23317163)

This already exists — most social media is already curated. You only see tweets and posts from those you follow or friend. You can already block or ignore any undesirables. This works fine for self-curation.

There is no need for holier-than-thou censorship short of legal breaches. Good to see FB take this change of direction.

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Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by solarkraft on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @06:27PM (#23317179)

Except when it doesn't.

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Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by 2019-nCoV on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @06:28PM (#23317194)

Such as?

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Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by solarkraft on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @06:37PM (#23317250)

Twitter shows me garbage I don't like, as does YouTube. They do this with very little regard for who you follow nowadays and give you no say in what types of stuff you actually want to be recommended. Sometimes they're nice enough to say why they recommend something (which should be standard), but most of the time it's just infuriatingly stupid.

I'm not against machine curation at all, mind you. I want the infrequent poster to have a higher weighed voice and such. But I want to be able to control the parameters.

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Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by 2019-nCoV on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @06:45PM (#23317339)

For Twitter use curated lists. This allows you to avoid "the algorithm".

You are bemoaning YouTube's discovery process, you need not watch what's "Up Next" — that's your choice.

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