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▲ misja111 a day ago

Does anybody know a good alternative to Facebook that doesn't force you to read its feed suggestions? I only have FB because I'm member of some groups where people post content that I'm interested in. I'm not interested in anything else. I find FB's constant stream of suggestions annoying as hell.

▲ColinWright a day ago | parent | next [-]

I use Mastodon almost exclusively.

It requires that you curate your connections, and discoverability is a known problem.

But I get to see posts from the people I follow, and "boosts" of posts they think are worth seeing, and there are no ads, and no algorithms deciding what I should be seeing and filling my feed with them.

I'm not saying it's a good alternative, but I'm finding it useful and refreshing.

▲nottorp a day ago | parent [-]

> discoverability is a known problem

Is it? Are you sure centralized authorities for "discovery" are a good thing? After all, the "discovery" algorithm is making people move off FB to Mastodon...

▲ColinWright a day ago | parent [-]

The challenge is:

You join Mastodon and want to find a specific friend.

Good luck!

People are accustomed to using centralised sites. They search by typing the target's name into a search box and get presented with a collection of options. That's less successful on Mastodon.

▲Zambyte 20 hours ago | parent [-]

> You join Mastodon and want to find a specific friend.

Ask for their username? How do you think people found each others email addresses?

▲ColinWright 17 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm trying to point out that people have experience of Facebook and Twitter and other platforms, and they expect when they join a new platform that they can type in their friends' names and get results. They then find that Mastodon doesn't work like that, and complain about the lack of "discoverability".

And they're right ... discoverability on Mastodon is not like on other platforms, and it is harder to find things.

Yes, I know how to do these things, I am, after all, a moderator on an instance with over 20K users. I'm just trying to point out that for some people the fact that "discoverability" doesn't work as it does on other platforms is a huge stumbling block.

▲cjs_ac a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If the only thing keeping you on Facebook is sources of specific content, you're looking for a platform that also has sources of that specific content. So it depends on what that content is, doesn't it?

▲xeromal a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You gotta find those small communities. I'm into 4wheel drives and use facebook groups but I'm often on Ih8mud now. Just a better place to be imo. You got to find where your people are at

▲coldpie a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The Something Awful forums.

▲mkayokay a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Maybe there are subreddits or discord servers about your topics

▲dr_dshiv a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Can operator be used to extract my social network data from fb?

▲new_user_final a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I think Facebook app an option to see feed from your friend list and following page/group only . I can't remember, probably long pressing on feed tab will show this option.