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I'm using facebook for one more month. Facebook simply will not show you the things the people you follow post. For example, an old school friend posted a photo of a frog on his front door. Just what I want to see on social media! "look at this frog!" perfect content A++

Facebook hid it. My feed is full of other random stuff.

So, now I just click on "friends" and look individually at what everyone has posted. Much more enjoyable. If I were going to stay I'd write a script to automate this.

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Now... 😈 what might be worth automating is some kind of script that would show people what facebook is HIDING from them. Those wonderful posts from the people they love and care about most.

It'd be annoying to program, and if it got any traction easy for facebook to foil ...yet, still, if only people knew all the wonderful things they are missing.

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Draken BlackKnight

Louis Rossmann had a video up about why to use adblockers and how to get more people to use them (YouTube probably took it down because it's YouTube) and his method to get people to use them is pretty apt. Basically, I'll start going "Oh, you're not seeing a coherent timeline? I don't have that problem because the socials I'm on don't have algorithms" and turn back to your own stuff, turning back to that someone if they ask what socials those are.
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BunRab Is Old And Tired

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There's still some functionality it offer that no one else has - mainly groups. The Heart Transplant Support Group I'm one of the mods for - lets several thousand people talk to eachother about this specific topic; it's a private group with moderated admission, so its page doesn't get anything else except member posts. It's got file space for shared documents. No one else has anything like that that is as accessible and easy to find.
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I have often seen people asking about fediverse "groups" and it would be nice if there were some kind of extension servers could choose to run that would work like groups. That said, managing and running private groups online can be a thankless tasks. That facebook has people moderating such groups for free is kind upsetting because THAT is real work.

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Wiley Wiggins

@BunRab @drakenblackknight The ‘hometown’ branch of mastodon allows for posts only viewable on the server they’re posted from as well as federated posts, which can be like a group. you are definitely right- group moderation is the real work. Related: runyourown.social/

How to run a small social network site for your friends

This document exists to lay out some general principles of running a small social network site that have worked for me. These principles are related to community building more than they are related to specific technologies.
runyourown.social
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But on the other hand, way back in the early 90s I was a volunteer forum host on AOL, and years later someone filed a class action claimimg the terms under which hosts operated made us employees so we should have been paid - and won! So maybe 12, 13 years later I got a check for over a grand. It can happen!
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I deleted my account. I hadn’t been on there in two years, but I signed back in to try to sell a few things on marketplace, and… wow. What an absolute pile up of random ads, posts from people I’ve never met, and just a mess of uninteresting garbage. I can’t believe anyone is still on there, but I suppose it’s the whole frogs in the boiling pot thing. Zuckerberg is now happily and openly nazi-adjacent, so that should be a red flag for most people.
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Oh yeah, I remember using that when they first broke the reverse chron feature. I will give it a shot, it may make this month of suffering more bearable.

Basically I'm being an active user for a month so I can let everyone know exactly where I went when I leave again.

There are a lot of good people on there. And some nice communities, it helps me to understand why people won't leave.

But also it's also horrible. I just can't deal.

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Mark

My feeling precisely. Can't see what friends have posted, and when FB deigns to show me a friend's post it is often not the latest one. And, everything is so slathered with ads and posts from groups I never followed that I find it unusable.

I plotted the same course about a week ago -- get back on long enough to let people know where I've gone.

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