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.

Now... 😈 what might be worth automating is some kind of script that would show people what facebook is HIDING from them 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.

@futurebird does FBP still work? back when i was using it until 2020 it seemed to be able to reveal most stuff and more or less give me a proper reverse-chron timeline

@futurebird https://www.fbpurity.c...

@apophis

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 horrible. I just can't deal.

@futurebird
That place is a tangled warren of random non-chronological posts and ads, the algorithm is directly responsible for brainwashing people and causing genocides (like in Myanmar), and Meta in general is the very definition of "Embrace, Enhance, Extinguish." The world would be better off without both Meta and Fuckerberg in it.

@drakenblackknight

I agree, but I don't see how to get people out of there without talking to them for at least a bit and leaving them a signpost of where to go.

@futurebird @drakenblackknight
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.

@BunRab @drakenblackknight

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.

@futurebird @BunRab
There is Friendica but I haven't been able to get it to work right with me.

I'm loving friendica right now. What didn't work for you?

@futurebird @BunRab @drakenblackknight

I think each decentralized, federated server is essentially a group. It would be nice if we could have an identity that could grab a server membership or a dozen, rather than having to move shit between servers when we get antsy.

@futurebird @BunRab @drakenblackknight they don’t manage it for free. They manage it at the cost of all the data the users give them in exchange and that’s extremely valuable.

@Vive_Levant @BunRab @drakenblackknight

I was speaking about how the mods are not paid by facebook. But this is also true.

@futurebird When you say “individually” do you mean checking up on friend A, then friend B, …? Kind of like checking on blogs without the use of an RSS reader?

@babelcarp

Yup.

But I don't follow many people. It's literally just like 80 people and most of them aren't posting anything. This is a concentrated pressure campaign.