alt Hacker News> I logged on for the first time in ~8 years
That's the problem. Your friends and liked pages have all moved on and aren't posting anymore. The algorithm has no idea what to show you.
FWIW I don't use Facebook actively but do log in once in a while, mainly for marketplace and neighborhood groups. And a ton of my friends are still active there (might be giving away my age). The first post on my feed not from a friend is at #14, and it's a clip from a comedian, so content I don't mind. Then one at #18, which is an article posted by a local newspaper. Further down at #25 or so from the onion. Keep scrolling I see New York Times, Gothamist, Subway Takes, Cracked (that's still around?), WTA. Overall my feed is almost entirely posts from my friends from the last week or relevant news, and I see zero AI slop or other posts of the kind that are in the article.
So basically - it's all about the algorithm and your connections. A "cooked" product doesn't make a trillion dollars every quarter.
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This could be, but the complaint about Facebook has always been people are posting but the feed won't show them posts from friends
> The algorithm has no idea what to show you.
If you run into somebody you don't know, your first instinct shouldn't be to start showing them porn.
I don't use Facebook but I do use YouTube and their recommendations are horrendously bad for me. So many AI videos.
For some reason last night it thought I wanted to see bogus videos of porch pirates stealing a package that's actually a glitter bomb. I clicked through to the comments and the top comment was something like "Who are these AI videos for?" and the response was something like "Me. I know they are fake but I like seeing thieves get what's coming to them."
Mike Judge is a prophet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWfOMeLk6m0