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Re:Sheryl Sandberg stepping down as Facebook COO by jrumbut on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @11:49PM (#31591117)
It is astonishing. I generally enjoy Facebook and while there are ads and click bait a lot of my feed is just my friends talking nicely, but it's a strange subset of friends.

I tried clicking on a few profiles I hadn't seen in a while and a lot of them had nice posts too. I saw everything from them for about a month then it disappeared again.

I am very worried about what will become of all the very private stuff in their database as they begin to decay.

Right now I assume it would take very sophisticated effort to steal all that messenger data, but what about if/when Facebook is a zombie company with a skeleton crew or an unloved subsidiary of a conglomerate?

Re:Sheryl Sandberg stepping down as Facebook COO by istjohn on Thursday June 02, 2022 @12:37AM (#31591396)
It's such a shame. I would LOVE to keep in touch with news from friends and family with a simple chronological feed, but every social media company insists on shoveling trash down my throat with an algorithm.
Re:Sheryl Sandberg stepping down as Facebook COO by dmitriid on Thursday June 02, 2022 @01:45AM (#31591767)
A week or so ago a new tab appeared in my Facebook app that gives chronological timeline of people and groups I follow. I don't know if it's in Europe only: https://imgur.com/a/xMb2VWG

They did the same with Instagram. Click Instagram logo and select "Following" to get a chronological timeline. Possibly also only in Europe.