They don’t want you viewing content from friends, they want you viewing content from the brands that pay them
Comment on Meta hypes AI friends as social media’s future, but users want real connections
dgriffith@aussie.zone 6 days ago
showed the “percent of time spent viewing content posted by ‘friends’” had declined over the past two years, from 22 to 17 percent on Facebook and from 11 to 7 percent on Instagram.
This is ENTIRELY because of Meta’s content algorithms that buried the content from everyone’s friends under a torrent of shit.
But of course Meta was terrified of people just viewing all their friend’s posts and then logging off for the day because, as everyone knows, line must always go up.
smeg@feddit.uk 6 days ago
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
EXACTLY. I stop using it as a way to connect with friends and families because of this shit and they fuck with the sorting. Every time you open the app they start showing irrelevant pages after irrelevant pages, and ads here and there, and then finally you get to a single post by your friend, and then continued with irrelevant pages. They’re the one that fucked with their own algorithms and changed their user behaviour, they now turn and lay their blame on the user. Fucking bunch of idiots.
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 6 days ago
Using Facebook to connect with family and friends is a valid idea … during the Obama administration.