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Comment by burnte

9 days ago

I only use FB for the occasional Marketplace sale/purchase because the rest of the site is a cesspool of nonsense and toxic ragebait. It's impossible to only see your friends updates now, so it's lost 99% of it's utility. Letting people see how awful it is will force folks to either leave or Facebook to fix itself, which will never happen. It seems like execs prefer to drive companies into the ground and bankruptcy court rather than change them to be more user friendly.

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dylan604  9 days ago

The vast majority of FB users see the unfiltered site, yet they are not leaving contrary to your theory. FB does not seem to be anywhere near the ground or bankruptcy court. These are very strange things you're commenting about one of the largest companies on the planet.

  • stubish  9 days ago

    And thus the social media addiction lawsuits and age gating are gaining traction. It seems clear the problem isn't going to solve itself, so society is turning to regulation.

  • burnte  8 days ago

    FB is losing users, especially amongst younger demo groups. There's a wave of AI craptent on the platform driving people away. Google also sees high profits right now but it's from squeezing, not improvement and customer happiness.

  • alex1138  9 days ago

    > not leaving

    It's hard to leave a monopoly, and you can't contact your friends any other way https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4151433

    Anecdotally, someone I know deleted their account, had it reactivated (the site did this) and now they show up on People You May Know. Plenty of other people have tried deleting it and found it nigh impossible

    • account42  8 days ago

      I think its more accurate to say that it seems hard, which admittedly is likely enough to get a lot of people to not try.

      Friends you can only contract through Facebook are not very deep friends.

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  • dofm  9 days ago

    I mean, obviously Facebook is not in financial difficulty.

    But it is, at some level, culturally dying. It is very evident.

    It would not be loss of revenue that troubled Facebook, for years at least — it would be slowing engagement and lower demand for reach.

  • bennettnate5  9 days ago

    Most people I've talked to actually use the "friends feed" in the menu that shows literally only what your friends have posted and nothing else; that could be my friend bias though

  • freehorse  9 days ago

    > yet they are not leaving

    Are you so sure? Anecdotally, I know increasingly more people who either left the platform or stopped using it last years, and this seems to be a pattern if we believe online sources [0]. Of course many stay, but the platform gets worse and worse ime.

    I visit facebook only for events and some groups that I cannot avoid, so I just enter specific pages there than navigating feeds. But looking at the normal feed, it is just so bad. Complete nonsense, irrelevant stuff and more and more AI generated slop. If we exclude some groups, no real, organic people actually post (except some influencers). For those who stay, assuming they do not get the "friends feed", I am really unsure how they can tolerate that.

    [0] https://policy.economy.ac/news/2026/05/202605289098