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Re:FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts by rconti on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @02:06PM (#32828053)
I don't understand your hesitation to share your photos (or at least, not based on that criteria). "[wouldn't] be welcome"? By whom? Facebook? Or your friends? Would that imply they'd rather see ads and shared crap content than original content?

IMO Facebook needs an "original content only" setting. I block every single page that some idiot shares, but I'm not sure how much it helps. I will literally never want to see something shared from another page.

It seems like this would be a good thing for FB too. Keep engagement up, keep inserting ads. Hell, they could insert MORE ads if the content I saw from my friends had a greater signal:noise ratio.

Anyway, I recently shared some vacation pictures and quite enjoyed it. So much better than a bullshit "story" that lasts 24h and nobody can engage with except via DM. Such a weird impulse for an app. (okay, I get that they want you to use it constantly so you have FOMO about missing content that disappears after 24h, but I don't get why they don't want any real user engagement on the content).

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Re:FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts by yakovsi on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @02:39PM (#32828491)
I totally get what he says. If your feed no longer feels like it's your feed, more like some bazar on your phone, than why post anything private?
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Re:FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts by drc500free on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @02:30PM (#32841256)
Exactly this, it's gone from a something like a yahoo listserve with your friends to nextdoor with the whole world. And this repositioning happened completely behind the scenes seemingly as a side effect of pushing monetization too hard.
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Re:FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts by Tao3300 on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @09:04PM (#32832068)
No I get it. Today it feels less like posting them on a microblog and more like hanging them in the middle of a mall and telling your friends they can look there. It also fits a little too close to the toxic "just the good parts" narrative of social media.
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