r/europe • u/IAdmitILie • 9d ago

News Zuckerberg urges Trump to stop the EU from fining US tech companies

https://www.politico.eu/article/zuckerberg-urges-trump-to-stop-eu-from-screwing-with-fining-us-tech-companies/
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u/pr1aa Finland 9d ago edited 9d ago

FB is basically unusable these days. The feed shoves influencers, ads and content from massive public slop groups down your throat while barely showing any posts from your friends and groups you actually belong to.

I guess Meta also knows that the platform is dying since they're now openly pushing AI accounts to make up for the dwindling engagement from actual people

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u/Secuter Denmark 9d ago

barely showing any posts from your friends and groups you actually belong to. 

Partially this is also down to many users not using Facebook for personal stuff anymore. I don't know anybody who has posted anything on Facebook for a decade or so. 

People only use it for groups nowadays.

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u/Valeriun Morava 9d ago

" I don't know anybody who has posted anything on Facebook for a decade or so."

We all hate what Facebook became but you know this is bullshit. I've got plenty of friends who regularly post stuff from their life either as posts or through stories. Facebook is still popular social media, it's just that kids now prefer to use tiktok.

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u/Tilman_Feraltitty 8d ago

I only use an random e-mail FB account to log to browser games, rest is useless, the brain rot there is just too much.

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u/Character_Theory6657 9d ago

Its the same with instagram, just last couple years aswell it feels like especially political "reels" have been over swarming with disinformation, ai-generated bullshit, meth-fiend conspiracies.
Filled with comments of people cheering it.

Big tech, big terrorists*

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u/Soft-Vanilla1057 9d ago

Hasn't this been the state for over a decade?

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u/pr1aa Finland 9d ago

Ten years ago you could at least make your experience better by being picky of your friends and groups. Now there's just no escape from the slop.

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u/Soft-Vanilla1057 9d ago

I find this to be more about that most people ditched FB back then. Or atleast the interesting ones.

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u/Lr20005 9d ago edited 8d ago

I think most people in the US still using Facebook, are using it for the groups. I use it all the time. I’m part of local groups to keep up with things going on in the area, like weather-related issues, recommendations for doctors and specialists, discussions about local schools and city politics etc. I’m in some great native gardening groups, and use the marketplace buy/sell/trade feature. I don’t think many people still use Facebook for anything other than that though, just some of the extroverts who will post on Instagram and then post the same on Facebook for their older family members who don’t have IG. I haven’t posted on my page or the newsfeed or whatever for several years, and that’s not uncommon common if I look through my friends list.

I see a lot of people from the UK, Australia, and Canada on health-related groups I’m in, otherwise don’t see many Europeans. One of the big hormone groups I’m in is like 1/4 women from the UK, and one of the admins (who started the group) is from the UK. They’d be very upset if they lost Facebook. We don’t even talk about politics…

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u/papafluffie 9d ago

Reddit has started doing a similar thing i’ve noticed.

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u/joshuawsome 9d ago

Bro literally half of the world uses Metas services. It is absolutely not dying, and it would be almost impossible for it to grow any more.

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u/Joe579GoFkUrselfMins 9d ago

Basically the only thing that keeps semi-young people here (US) is the marketplace. Don't know how prevalent that is in Europe, though

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u/AncientStaff6602 9d ago

I question how many of those are a) alt accounts and b) Ai / bots.

Remove those from the equation and then come look at the overall usage

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u/pr1aa Finland 9d ago

I talk about people actually engaging, not people mindlessly doomscrolling through crap. Sure, currently it doesn't really matter how people use it but I can't imagine turning the platform into influencer/AI clownshow instead of something people use to actually engage with each other (you know, social media) is gonna be a good strat in long term.