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Comment by Beijinger

8 months ago

Reddit tries very hard to make you move to their app.

Facebook as well.

They responded to the criticism of people leaving their platform because the feed was all garbage and no friend updates by making a friends only feed feature you could only enable in the app.

  • If you use Facebook in a browser, install the social fixer plug in and put this into the hide options:

    follow

    Reels

    People you may know

    join

    • Reels are ridiculously ham-fisted and there's no granularity

      Facebook has "content preferences" as an option, but you can't put "don't show Reels" in it

      Reels are listed 3 at a time so what is "hide this" even doing?

      It's kind of the same with Youtube Shorts. Show less of? Okay, very good, we'll just ignore that setting next time

      These companies need some serious goddamn competition, there should be real consequences for just ignoring your userbase