@noupside.bsky.social FWIW, I have accounts at X and Fakebook
X - rarely login. It's the Elon Musk show, like it or not. There's no escaping it. I blocked Musk, and 12 Musk spinoff accounts popped up
FB is a joke that i use for entertainment, and for Marketplace, which has apparently replaced craigslist. Around 42% of the posts are AI generated, and I've seen statistics that estimate around 25% of comments are.
Thus, it's Fakebook to me. It's propaganda, sex trade, minimal thought, and activity trolling by accounts from all over the world. It's where critical thought ends and world views are expressed in memes. Racism is common.i block constantly - jiggly women and anything political to keep from going crazy. There are no friendships developed, and you leave not thoughtful, but feeling cheap.
From the article: "But every now and then, a FiveThirtyEight article would “go viral” on News Feed. When this happened, it seemed literally almost completely random. It wasn’t even particularly well-correlated with the headline. And it was inversely correlated with the depth and quality of the article."
This is Fakebook. The more dumbed down and vapid it is, the more it's accepted as normal.
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