That’s kind of my feeling too, although it’s dangerously close to “better back in my day” given my age.
The period after they shut down browser popups but before they invented vitrual DOM-hacking popups was great, and that’s a measurable change.
Social media peaked in 2012/2013, before just before recommendation algorithms became a thing. Everything became insufferable afterwards.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
Mubelotix@jlai.lu 1 day ago
Lemmy is nice though
Engywuck@lemm.ee 1 day ago
TBH, I found FB insufferable already in 2008, when I deleted my 1 y/o account.
orcrist@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Agree, I felt the bad effects of FB around then. It was just so pointless.