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?

  • NineMileTower@lemmy.worldEnglish
    381·
    2 months ago

    You know what sucks about Facebook? The fact that it took the reigns from Craigslist and you can’t buy local used stuff without having a Facebook account. I hate hate hate that. I want to sell my used shit without a Facebook account. It’s all fucking tire kickers anyway.

    • bluGill@fedia.io
      29·
      2 months ago

      The solution is to keep using craigslist - it still exists and gets some activity. Ensure that it gets more.

      • TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        2 months ago

        This. If people really want to buy something they will check all available websites for the item(s) they’re looking for. I still use CL exclusively and refuse to touch FB Marketplace even with a burner account because it requires a phone number.

        • Telorand@reddthat.comEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          Absolutely this. In the town I moved from, Craigslist was the defacto town market. In this one, it’s FB Marketplace.

          FB doesn’t have a stranglehold because they’re better; these spaces can and do evolve organically.

      • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
        5·
        2 months ago

        I have never been on Facebook, never even been on the website.

        The day it started I told my college-age family that it was a privacy nightmare. They called me paranoid.

        • Takumidesh@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          2 months ago

          Facebook’s Shadow profile on you doesn’t care whether you have an account or visited their site.

          • mriormro@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            I’m not going to allow them to coerce me into making an account because they have a simulacrum of me.

        • bluGill@fedia.io
          3·
          2 months ago

          It is a privacy nightmare. However if you only use it for keeping up with distance friends it is a useful tradeoff. However because they must have so much private information to be useful for that purpose you need to ensure they never have any other purpose. Which is why I won’t use marketplace or groups - there are alternatives that don’t already have private information.

    • DarkThoughts@fedia.io
      16·
      2 months ago

      As a non American I’m more salty about Oculus. lol Although at its height it was also severely annoying that every freaking company used FB pages instead of their own websites, including for support requests. So without FB you literally could not contact them. Luckily that trend only held up for a few years but it was still annoying as hell.

      • evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Oculus was founded by a shitty person who sold to Facebook and then went on to help make a company to bring Big Tech into surveillance and autonomous weapon systems. Basically, he’s trying to bring on an orwellian nightmare.

        Oculus would have gone bad weather or not Facebook bought them.