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I noticed last year that FB did some change to their recommendations engine, that they’ll show posts by random people based things you’ve searched. A friend was

I noticed last year that FB did some change to their recommendations engine, that they’ll show posts by random people based things you’ve searched. A friend was diagnosed with cancer last year, I searched extensively, and now I’m exclusively getting posts from random people with cancer on my feed.

chistev 2mo ago
Isn't that how it has been?
- reactordev 2mo ago
  No, it used to be a shuffled timeline of the posts and likes your connections/friends have made but I guess when half your platform are bots, you don’t want to store that metadata anymore.
  - yard2010 2mo ago
    Remember the little dot in the end of the feed when you saw all your friends posts?
    - asdff 2mo ago
      The days of scrolling 10-15 mins and done with social media for the day because you caught up.
skybrian 2mo ago
It’s often very good at finding posts that I might theoretically want to read, except that I never want to read them on Facebook, because it would get in the way of seeing posts from friends.