La Conquête du Panini: Oh I just meant I'm not sure he delves directly into that, didn't want anyone to read it looking for the juice on that particular angle.

the federalist has 166 readers lmao

what happened? is this all the effect of trump having lost?

Facebook has become unuseable and it was funnelling clicks to these places by the 100,000s

and in some cases ways that were obviously clear violations of Facebook rules, like DailyWire was getting a million hits from thousands of nominally independent facebook groups that were doing coordinated posts and shares on their articles.

so did zuck stop that or what? i’m just wondering if there’s an explainer showing facebook traffic cratering, facebook not promoting these pages in favor of Jesus AI pics, etc

I don't have a specific explainer but I've been reading recently that Facebook has become much more aggressive about downplaying links that go off site, and also that it's been full of sort of really weird artifacts of its algorithm that are cramming up feeds -- not necessarily AI stuff

though the Shrimp Jesus stuff is definitely a big part of it -- but overall by trying to tamp down both "politics" and "external links" it's just made space for increasing incomprehensible old people behaviors.

A few recent podcasts I listen to have delved into all the weird decrepit groups, tons of weird "Offficel Facebook complaints centar" type groups, etc.. www.wheresyoured.at/were-watchin...

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Eds post is unrelated to the fake groups I think.

No I see the connection, it’s so gummed up with weird nonsense and Groups and ads that you can’t even find any actual content from people you follow!

Oh I just meant I'm not sure he delves directly into that, didn't want anyone to read it looking for the juice on that particular angle.

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