You can mute people though. But a "closed community" option would prob solve what you're talking about.

FB is absolutely useless. Marketplace terrifies me; I'm not gonna meet a stranger to sell a toaster. I would rather give it away rather than end up in some basement, lol, or worse, have my time wasted by someone who isn't sure they want to buy a toaster, or can I send them 12 more pictures of said toaster, and can I send them the toaster's measurements?

Where facebook wins is it is a human directory, it's been around a long time, and so everyone is on it. Your chance is selling the toaster is better. Your chance of finding your perfect, pink, 7" tall toaster is also better. 🙄 🤷‍♀️

The self-censoring has become innate now behaviorially, you know you "go to jail" for saying things like "white people" or "suicide" or anything "mean," even if joking. Even if you are a "white people," as I am. 🙄

I still have it because it is a way to keep in touch with most people I've kown for 20 years because it's been around that long.

I recently had an experience where it started feeding me ads for something I'd never want based on an offline conversation my phone must have picked up while I was at someone else's home. Did keywords from that talk become targeted ads? Absolutely! In a terrifying, Minority Report kind of way.

So that MFer is off my phone as well as Instagram with its creepy ass "Maps" tracker. ICYMI, Instagram launched a location tracker the other day with dubious settings. Was my location shared? I am terrified. Fuck that.

No. More. Meta.

Muting is not a good solution because they you spend your whole day muting accounts. Eventually like X, the bots are just too many to keep muting.

The toaster story is not Facebook's fault. That's the life is selling things. It's a terrible job because fiat people have major issues.

Facebook won because of the features. It has some of the most amazing features to connect others and make networks.

I remember exactly how Facebook started. Exactly like Noatr. Everyone just started adding random people to get the ball rolling and eventually as everyone else joined. The majority of people just followed family, friends, co-workers etc. There was never any issue of spam because of the friend request issue.

Nostr is more like X, where anyone can interact with you which causes spam.

Yes. You are right. Facebook and most app listen to keywords you type or say and then they use that push ads on you. I've said I wanted to eat chicken many times and eventually a minute later KFC ads popup.

Facebook sucks because it's centralized but we can't ignore the features. The features is what made Facebook the king and still currently the king as it's used by billions.

I would rather give away my toaster too then deal with fiat people.

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