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• AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I honestly don’t know how I could use Facebook that way. Seriously. I log in once in a blue moon, and half the stuff I see scrolling through the main feed has nothing to do with any of my friends as far as I can tell. And that’s with an ad blocker.

  I don’t understand how anybody can stand it. Maybe it’s a “boiling frog” situation, or maybe they’ve developed better counter-strategies than I am familiar with? I quit Facebook about 10 years ago and when I poke my head in now, it’s completely different. It is terrible in ways I wouldn’t have believed 10 years ago.

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  • Yael126@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Do you mean it’s ads or something else? I have a few ads too but mostly it’s stuff I’ve followed.

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    • AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Lots of recommendations for groups, recommendations of random people to follow, and things like that. If these are paid ads, they are not clearly presented as such.

      Though I just logged in (first time in a while) and I didn’t see that, so…maybe it changed, or maybe my ad blocker is doing better than it used to? Not sure.

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  • Yael126@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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• solsangraal@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  google “facebook mental health” and you’ll get an idea. if you’re fine using it, that’s great. but not everyone is like you. and the “i’m fine with this–everyone else should be too!” attitude is one thing i saw constantly on facebook

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  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I was asking what everyone else is doing there, not saying everyone should be fine with it. Geez.

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    • solsangraal@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      lol sorry, “i’m fine with this-- whatever you’re doing must be wrong”

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      • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        It seems like you’re trying to find a reason to be upset about my question tbh

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• boonhet@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Originally the criticism was that you see the highlights of other people’s lives and then compare that to your everyday life and that’s depressing.

  Nowadays I think it’s all the politics being injected everywhere. Me? I look for cars and car parts on groups. That’s about it.

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  • datavoid@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Literally all I see are ads, I guess you need friends for it to be addictive or something…

    I really wish my city would get off its collective ass and stop using marketplace.

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    • boonhet@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      All I see if I scroll is AI slop. Hundred different variations of one theme or another in different groups or pages I’ve never subscribed to.

      I go straight to Marketplace or whatever group I need and that’s it these days.

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      • GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Right? AI-generated pictures of Scarlett Johansen as a flight attendant praising Jesus, or an African kid making sculptures of Jesus out of trash. And all the comments just being ‘Amen’ spam. It’s just fucking dystopian.

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• acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  pretty much that

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  • jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Except my crazy relative (just 1, thank dog) also has telegram and feels the urge to forward every damn whackjob conspiracy theory reinterpretation of truth that they find to me and my wife, despite us never replying except to ask them to stop. eg. Cloud seeding, windmills and electric cars are responsible for destroying the atmosphere (not co2 and other greenhouse gases); Bill Gates etc. are spreading microchips through vaccinations; judges ruling that measles doesn’t exist; Ukraine is full of nazis; and yes, even regurgitated feelgood fairy tales and random cat pictures from Facebook. So glad they are in a country far far away from me. They “do their own research”, of course.

    So bloody sad that so many people are in a similar situation of avoiding friends and family for their own sanity (and sometimes safety).

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    • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      there is that, but also people are just generally assholes on the internet. i think the less digital socialization we do the better.

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  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I wonder if people have shittier relatives or live in a shittier town hah

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