With no communication from the company, publishers relying on Facebook traffic are at the mercy of the inscrutable algorithm. Data shows an apparent change at Facebook in May caused website traffic to tank at some news sites.
LostCause
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191Y

Facebook already went through enshittification and should be dead but somehow it isn’t, it just survives off boomers and conspiracy theorists or something.

Similar to how Reddit will survive even if it‘s all just bots talking to each other and reposting into infinity.

Weird to think some text or image I contributed could be reposted long after my death and written about by AI bots.

I was using Facebook as a means to see whats up in my area, everytime I go on now I scroll till I see something interesting, I get a few mins in and decide it’s dead and close out of it.

Facebook once was a great tool for local postings, it’s now gone to shit. I am really hoping to see another platform, preferably in the fediverse take it’s place.

dot com is coming to an end, and people are seeking alternatives, I just hope it isn’t a total fragmentation of the masses.

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The last time I scrolled through my Facebook feed, I saw more ads than actual posts from people I’m friends with. I couldn’t spend more than a few minutes on there considering it was like 1 in 8 posts was by someone I follow or am friends with and the rest were ads.

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