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They literally don't. X pushing things to the top of ur feed, Facebook polluting your timeline with random video shares, it all makes it harder to see the content you actually care about
Facebook before the algorithm was awesome. It was just the most recent stuff your friends did in that literal order. There was nothing wrong with it lol. Or at least I didn’t think so.
OG Facebook was honestly great.
It didn't make as much money from sponsored videos until they forced it to be in your face via the algorithm 😀
Now if you go on Facebook, you barely even see posts from your friends. Just videos and posts from random groups you aren’t even in.
I blocked all the "suggested for you" posts on facebook through uBlock origin.
Now when I load my feed, I see it block one post after the other, so many of them, literally more posts than the ones I get from friends.
Afterwards my feed is as clean as a whistle, lol
When I visit Facebook, it's about 8:1 "recommended for you" vs people I actually know.
I see exactly one post on Instagram from anyone I follow before it's all ads and random algorithm shit I'm not interested in
I've just started going through and telling it not show me any of the recommended stuff.
It's kind of fun watching the algorithm cycle through waves of guessing. "Ok it's going to be all wrestling for the next two days. Hmm, that didn't work, let's try MMA for a couple days. No, alright, how about a bunch of memes about being a mechanic..."
On the other hand the clicking "don't show me this" doesn't seem to actually do anything. I've told it not to show me Pixie and Brutus at least three times.
I do actually care about the content they "push". Most fediverse apps are pointless to me exactly because they don't have an algorithm. Unless you already know EXACTLY everything you're interested in from the start, finding new stuff is the primary and best feature of the "algorithms".
No they're not.. Those algorithms push stuff meant to manipulate you into making you click more. It doesn't even expose you to anything new, just stuff you either already agree with or that makes you angry.
You want to find new stuff? Find or build a directory website. But wanting it found for you is the root of the problem. You don't get to just be served in life.