Literally the only reason my family interacts with Facebook. It's infuriating.

We need a dumb browser.

This browser doesn’t work for most shit, making it the best browser available for most shit you actually need to do.

That’s a browser I can get behind.

I can't stand how many companies and organizations only have a presence on Facebook. When I reach out to them to ask if there is another way to stay connected I usually get a big NOPE.

Anger is pointless without action. Either accept the situation as it is, or start regularly attending school board meetings. If you want a policy changed, speak out about it. Don't just give them vibes either, give them good reasons to change the rules and processes. Have a solution at the ready which is idiot-proof, accessible, and well-supported. Oh, and also, make sure that your clear solution is zero-cost, which is why schools fell into using Facebook and municipal groups used Twitter.

If you want to change the situation, you have to understand why it became the way it is and address the pain points that led here, as well as their pain points that both prevent moving and/or encourage moving. If Facebook suits the needs of the school and the majority of parents, stop being angry and realize that there's a value in the platform for the purpose.

My kid refused. The school district was notified that they needed to do something else, or we would sue. They changed.

That's what email is for.

In fact, if I unblock them, I still get emails from an elementary school in the Seattle area because 20 years ago I dated somebody with a kid that went there and I subscribed to their event email.

Yes, I tried to unsubscribe for many years.

I missed out on a lot of communication for my kids' extracurriculars because they were only on Facebook and I don't use it. It's infuriating, but less infuriating than the other platforms that a couple of the groups used to attempt to communicate schedules and requirements.

It's ridiculous that this sort of thing isn't a solved problem. Schools need to communicate with parents in an effective way, yet none of the platforms I've used work well. I've been in tech for decades and I still have trouble with their shitty UI.

Oops. I basically duplicated your reply. You are spot on the mark.

Second to worst for that is the excessive use of Google stuff, including Chromebooks replacing PC labs, and a bunch of G-software

If only there was a way to send the same communication to a group of people at once, regardless of what platform they use.

Alas, that sort of technology seems impossible. Even in Star Trek they don’t have such a thing.

When I was still using Instagram reels, I was always amazed how quickly the algorithm figured me out. If I hesitated for even a second on a reel, it would amend my next ones immediately. I assume the real trick is comparing it to the average time spent on a reel, everyone spends longer on a wall of text reel, but when I stop on a Linux reel for an extra second, I'm immediately in the 1% for engagement.

I read something years ago about how your phone keyboard tracks your recommended words, it knows if you're more likely to type apple or Apple, or if you type soup more than average, and any app that gets that data and compares it to the baseline has an instant, in depth profile on you.

This is why I love the idea of Cromite and other “antifingerprinting” efforts, not simply blocking but spoofing and plausibly randomizing as many metrics as they can.

I wish there was some way to distribute that to the masses. Like maybe a crazy hardware zero day, and it’s only used to stealth load anti fingerprinting on as many devices as it can.

Exactly, if I look at my facebook feed, besides posts from people and groups I actually follow, the "suggested" posts are all stuff that matches my interests. gaming, music, movies.

They hadn’t used Facebook in years, so this is the default algorithm state — rage bait and bate-bait.

If that's your take and thats their goal: he doesn't seem very engaged with the content does he?

So clearly in that case it's a failure.

Are big businesses still advertising on Facebook? I'd heard that they were running ads for full-on scams, presumably because few real people are left on the platform and it's no longer attractive to most advertisers.

And those “real” posts

Albert Einstein

I tried logging in to use the Marketplace to sell some shit. For whatever reason I couldn't access it. My account is verified, location is set, and some marketplace settings pages said my account is in good standing. Sent a request to support weeks ago and heard nothing.

So I just throw shit away now. Like I WANT to use your platform, but you're not letting me. Bye.

Craigslist still exists though. We could just... bring it back by using it again. As a bonus, it's not an app so it doesn't track you.

Idk I thought it was an interesting article. I haven't logged in since like 08, so I had no idea what it is like now.

And some rando fucking lemmy/reddit user complains about it.

It's the cycle of life.

Which has more bots?

JFC this is what we're destroying the environment for?

I sat in a brief on this, and while it definitely was hyped up a bit and strategically poked by humans to get some responses, the overall takeaway is that I'm fucking terrified of what's to come with AI... and I work in AI research...

there was chrome (and firefox probably?) extension that went through your all fb liked pages and unsubscribed from them so that when it's done timeline is gone entirely. fb went after its dev, removed that extension and banned him forever because it kept people off fb https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-bans-unfollow-everything-developer-delete-news-feed-2021-10 doing this all manually still worked back then, not sure about today

Facebook's letter took him by surprise, he said, adding that Unfollow Everything had only 2,500 weekly active users and 10,000 downloads.

"It was definitely growing, but it wasn't huge," he said.

"Apart from that I just very much saw it as something that improves the Facebook experience for Facebook users," he added, saying he got "amazing feedback" from people saying they "were using Facebook in a way that was much healthier for them."

slightly healthier relationship with attention devouring parasite in your pocket? not on zucc's watch, ALL contents of your skull are to be sourced from and licensed to meta platforms inc exclusively