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Posted by npilk 1 day ago

Facebook is cooked(pilk.website)
1409 points | 771 commentspage 14
mattfrommars 1 day ago|
Facebook is still has excellent marketplace

Only that keeps me going back.

tartoran 1 day ago|
I stopped using Facebook for a while but I agree that their marketplace used to be pretty good for a while, that until it started to be spammed with scams. It became really unusable IMO.
sodafountan 17 hours ago||
I'm an adult male; my feed is littered with thirst-trap-like posts. I don't even know how or when it got so bad. Instagram is somewhat off, too.

I find myself doomscrolling quite often just out of bad habit.

Wish things were different.

maurycyz 1 day ago||
Very predictable: If Facebook (or any other social media site) showed you what you wanted to see --- stuff from your friends --- you would be satisfied and leave.

... but Facebook makes money off ads. They don't want you leaving. They want you to stay online all day.

Instead, they show you brainrot: content interesting enough to keep you on the site, but shallow enough that you are always thirsty for more. However, making this content is still a lot of work, and isn't what most people want to do: It takes a lot of brainrot to keep you trapped 24/7.

Slop requires no effort, costs next to nothing, and fills the "brainrot" niche perfectly. Facebook doesn't care that people are posting bot content, because it's the perfect thing to make them money.

fHr 9 hours ago||
Good hope it dies.
mvdtnz 18 hours ago||
Don't know why Linda Dong (yoleendadong) has to catch strays from this post. Her videos are legitimately funny, absolutely not sloppy or bait. Her content is brilliant.
npilk 17 hours ago|
Fair enough - I didn’t turn the sound on for the video. The premise of the sketch seemed to fit the rest of the slimy stuff in the feed, which is why I figured that video in particular got recommended.

I mostly included it because of the absurd question Meta suggested I ask their AI.

eastbayjake 1 day ago||
This dynamic carries into Threads, where Meta AI slop is aggressively pushed in the feed.

There's also a significant amount of viral content that is clearly an older person's Facebook post which was intended for only friends but got pushed to the public feed of a Threads account that may have been created by accident -- or default -- when Facebook blitz-scaled user numbers after launch. The posts are always hundreds of people piling on about someone posting a photo of their teenager in an embarrassing situation, with the original poster probably blissfully unaware that they're getting publicly dragged on Threads.

Check your parents' phones to see if they're publicly cross-posting on accident!

goldkey 1 day ago||
They're crushing it with anyone over 45
jmward01 23 hours ago||
I think the key here is engagement is based a lot on content quantity, not quality. If your feed doesn't have a lot of natural quantity associated with it then FB will find something to stuff in there. The reality is that most people don't have a lot of quantity on their feeds from their friends so that means they get the AI slop to fill the void. At least that is my complete guess on a root cause of (some) of the FB slop. I haven't logged in for 6 months and I am now checking it 1-2 times a year because the last few times I logged on it was pushing hate content at me.
scaredreally 1 day ago||
My main use case for FB is a group related to reviewing restaurants in the area. I have no FB friends/connections. I use messenger for my one friend who insists on using it. It is mostly slop (and strangely I get posts from that same relationship account), I scroll for about 5 minutes at a time before I realize it is not worth looking at. And truthfully, that is what I want from social media: a few minutes worth of distraction followed by the feeling that I had just wasted my time and then on to something more meaningful.
achenatx 21 hours ago|
mine is great, it is all posts from my groups and a few from my friends.
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