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Re:Facebook is nearing a reputational point of no return on Thursday October 07, 2021 @05:39PM (#28792462)
Low-effort memes with cheap wit get more likes, which in turn bumps your content higher in the feed which in turn invites more likes, cascading into dozens or scores of your friends liking and validating your post.

Long-form content with more depth gets fewer initial likes, resulting in being hidden from most of your ancillary friends altogether.

This has behavioral impact on all of its users. Do you want to post content that only gets 5 likes versus what gets 50 likes?

Re:Facebook is nearing a reputational point of no return on Thursday October 07, 2021 @05:22PM (#28792265)
I think this is already the case and is why FB doesn’t want to get rid of the offending content, for many users this is the only thing still keeping them engaged. Turn that off and it’s just a stream of advertising, memes, and dinner pics.
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