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

[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!

[stevedinn@lemmy.ca]

Has anyone here installed friendica? I tried to give it a go yesterday with the the docker image. The login page is showing up, but it is giving me HTTP 500 errors when I click sign up I also get no errors in any logs.

[justz@lemmy.world]

OG Facebook?

They will ban my racist uncle and require a college education again?

[overload@sopuli.xyz]

Where I'm from we have an alternative website to Craigslist that has many, many more scammers and time wasters than marketplace. At least marketplace has your actual name and face tied to the account.

Not to say that those problems don't exist on marketplace for me, just that it is the place where they are the least bad.

[squizzy@lemmy.world]

It was useful and fun, not facebook as a company but the community and meeting people you havent in a while or otherwise never would.

I am still hesitant to delete my dormant account for the one or two people I met travelling that I may look to bump into again if I visit them or they me.

[ilovethebomb@lemm.ee]

With X, Musk has gone full mask off, and there is a clear successor to the platform, which means sticking around isn't really defensible.

[plz1@lemmy.world]

I ditched it in 2016 and haven't felt a loss.