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Re:I Have Cancer. Now My Facebook Feed Is Full of ‘Alternati... by smt88 on Sunday July 12, 2020 @09:58PM (#23816456)
I've found Twitter and reddit work equally well, as does subscribing to the emails of local organizers.

In all those cases, you can block ads. On Facebook, you can't. The arms race between Facebook and adblockers seems to be in Facebook's favor.

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Re:I Have Cancer. Now My Facebook Feed Is Full of ‘Alternati... by chongli on Monday July 13, 2020 @03:05PM (#23824343)
I don’t know about your family, but I have only one relative on Twitter and none on Reddit. If I wanted to organize something with my family, Twitter or Reddit would be the wrong place for it.

Also I’m not sure how relevant blocking ads is to this. If it’s just about annoyance then Reddit and Twitter both have some extremely annoying aspects as well. Reddit is absolutely relentless about trying to get you to install their crappy app. Twitter is relentless about trolling external links that get too popular.

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