The return of ‘OG Facebook’ is a big Meta priority this year

[otacon239@lemmy.world]

Just took a look at Friendica for the first time last night. It’s wild how something as simple as proper post formatting and wide open attachment options are enough to make me wish all my friends were on it. Way more personal feeling.

[ilovethebomb@lemm.ee]

I've deleted the Facebook app off my phone, and started just checking in once or twice a day to see if any cool trips are being planned.

My feed is mostly sponsored posts and meme pages now, and that's not what I'm there for.

Facebook seems to have forgotten what their site is supposed to be for, which is connecting with people you know.

[imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works]

That's what you thought it was for. It was always for profit. Their goals and yours may have just better aligned before. Once they achieved mass addiction they had the ability to decouple their profit strategy from your perogative.

[plz1@lemmy.world]

As long as you can't default sort by updates from people you actually want updates from, and omit the fire hose of unsolicited ads and propaganda, it will never even get a whiff of what it started out as.

[mnbychoice@midwest.social]

Maybe that one plus where the parties are this weekend.

[ilovethebomb@lemm.ee]

I mean, there's a reason they're going back to the old Facebook, or are claiming to. You need people to actually use your platform to make money off them.

[slopppyengineer@lemmy.world]

The classic three step process of enshittification:

• Draw in users with good stuff and lock them in with the network effect

• Use the large user base as bait to draw and lock in businesses and other figures wanting to pay money to throw their message at said users

• Squeeze users and advertisers for all they're worth until the exodus starts to a different platform.

[fitik@fedia.io]

Why is there a whole Friendica directory if there's no one there?

https://dir.friendica.social/

[imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works]

You're hired!

[ninemiletower@lemmy.world]

Do you have siblings? Are they on it? How about cousins? Aunt?

[qprimed@lemmy.ml]

gently harass them until they relent and try it? let the website to phoneapp pipeline do its thing.

[synae@lemmy.sdf.org]

These days my most common action is to "hide" or "block" random posts that are in my feed from pages or groups I've never heard of. Blocking ads is more steps but I still do that for particularly egregious crap getting pushed on me.

[overload@sopuli.xyz]

Probably they'll try to bring back features that cause people to interact more publicly, like poking. No way sponsored posts and ads are going away.
For me it is an unusable app, way too little organic content on there. Marketplace is great though.

[ilovethebomb@lemm.ee]

I think they've realised they're at 3, and are backing off a bit.

[cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml]

Were your siblings or cousins on Facebook before that became a thing?

[slopppyengineer@lemmy.world]

Probably. There is no user growth anymore at facebook and what's happening at X shows the network effect can work in reverse. As soon as a certain amount of (high profile) people leave, a lot of their followers go with them, what triggers others to pack up and it's downhill from there.

[kentheeagle@lemmy.world]

I won't know because I deleted Facebook.

[tehn00bi@lemmy.world]

So, are they going back to where every post starts with “is”?

[grumpyduckling@sh.itjust.works]

Marketplace sucks ass. Search is broken, get nothing but "is this available?" Because people accidently hit the button. Bunch of bored drunk people messaging you and wasting your time. Tons of scammers. I never had those issues with craigslist except for scammers.

[uhmbah@lemmy.ca]

I have the tiny luxury to not know what anybody's talking about because I have never had a facebook account.

Woo!