> I manually unfollowed almost every friend and every page I followed a couple years ago. ... I ended up enjoying Facebook again, even if in a very different way.
Facebook and other social media platforms actually gives users a lot of tools to tailor their feeds. Muting or unfollowing people (leaving the friend connection intact) should be the go-to operation for anyone who's always posting things you aren't interested in.
The other half of tailoring your feed is learning to embrace the like button. If you see something you like, click the like button. Sounds simple, but I know a lot of people who refuse to click the like button because they dislike the concept of like counts, but they forget that it's one of the primary mechanisms for telling the algorithms what you want to see. The more you like content, the more you'll see it.
I feel like they also are trying to send me content that upsets me to get me to engage. Mute one conspiracy theorist and all the others start getting moved up in my feed.
The /s is because: while it is engagement with the platform, the act of muting someone is me expressing my intent to not want to engage with that account or similar ones.
It would nice if they offered some sort of lambda that could run against your entire newsfeed inventory that would rank the stories. You want most recent? OC first? MSI first? Fine it's just a simple function that you would be able to provide (in hack).
This way advanced users get the feeds they want without FB worrying about creating another "API" to be discovered by NYT journalists on a slow news day
If I click the like button, that is a public action, others can see it.
Also there is no dislike button. FB needs to understand that when I say I don't like an ad it means I don't like it, and should not only immediately apologize but also ensure I don't see ads like that again, if they want me to use their platform.
Facebook and other social media platforms actually gives users a lot of tools to tailor their feeds. Muting or unfollowing people (leaving the friend connection intact) should be the go-to operation for anyone who's always posting things you aren't interested in.
The other half of tailoring your feed is learning to embrace the like button. If you see something you like, click the like button. Sounds simple, but I know a lot of people who refuse to click the like button because they dislike the concept of like counts, but they forget that it's one of the primary mechanisms for telling the algorithms what you want to see. The more you like content, the more you'll see it.