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deathbird@mander.xyz 4 days agoThat’s literally how Facebook used to function, and a big motivator as to why people joined it. People wanted to interact with people they knew.
And this would not prevent people from making new connections.
If you wanted to meet, I don’t know, hot singles in your area, you would actually have to talk to people who knew about the singles group on Facebook and have them share the link to the group with you. Or find it in the search bar if it’s public. You know, seek it out.
Keep in mind that Facebook does not show you groups or people because it cares about the connections that you make. It just wants you to keep clicking. Your own desire to connect is more than sufficient to drive you to connection…with a search bar.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 4 days ago
That was then. Now is not 20 years ago. You can’t just take a platform like Facebook 20 years into the past and expect the business model to still function. It’s like saying that people used to buy newspapers so banning NYT from having a website is not a problem, they will just sell newspapers again.
deathbird@mander.xyz 3 days ago
If Facebook as it is today is the only profitable way for it to function, it shouldn’t exist.
That’s not the case of course. A disenshitified Facebook is possible, and would be profitable too, it just wouldn’t make literally all the money. It just wouldn’t exploit you and literally every single way it could manage. Zuckerberg and the other shareholders would have to tolerate lower profits, but they wouldn’t have zero.