I remember when you could go on Facebook and look through your feed at what your friends are saying, catch up with them, and browse posts that they have made. Now, it’s just completely random and chaotic, almost nonsensical. There’s no logical sense to my Facebook feed at all. As you can see in the image, they are showing me stuff that I’m not even following. This is not even something that I am actively a part of! It’s some random group. So what’s the point of following a group or liking a page, if they’re just going to show you random stuff anyway?

Like, wtf happened to this website?

    • FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      It may be what you say, the algorithm being dumb. Or it may be deliberate: you’ve shown yourself willing to categorize these annoying ads so you will be sent more so that fb can collect more data on them.

      Abandoning is the only option. It’s a dopamine casino now, full of flashing lights.

    • chakan2@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      example if you see an ad you hate, for like a slot machine game app, and you click ‘see less ads like this

      You engaged with that ad. It’s worth slightly more than if you scrolled by it.