the two main gun convos i participated in on facebook, one ended up in blocking, the other a deleted on account.
facebook brings humans together... 🤔
@mairin I've been relentlessly hiding-all from any source of #hottake pollution in my FB feed for ages. There's certainly been an uptick this week.
Facebook is a toxic cesspool second only to Twitter. My solution is to drastically limit engagement by person (frothing ignoramuses) and topic (politics, news, culture wars). I wouldn't have an account at all, but Zuckerberg suckered a percentage of people so deeply that they won't use anything else. It's working for me; YMMV.
@mairin
1. Only connect with people I have a reason to communicate with
2. Unfollow those who post aggravating content; then scroll their page (or not) at *my* leisure
3. Hide *every* annoying post - the algo does eventually learn a bit
4. Hide-all from annoying Pages (mostly news/politics)
5. Rely on willpower and DO NOT ENGAGE on political threads unless everyone involved is actually both interesting & civil
6. Only give likes & comments on posts that I find worthwhile
@mairin It's ridiculous that I have to do this and that it's this involved. I didn't have a #facebook account for years, but I went back because the grim cost-benefit analysis favors dealing with this bullshit because Zuckerberg sucked enough friends so deeply into his horrible little swamp that they won't communicate any other way. So, this is how I manage it. It's like a radiation exposure protocol. :P
@mairin Oh, the other thing - I do my level best not to post anything that will invite trash comments and "takes" either. So my page is the Facebook equivalent of an aesthetic tumblr, and I tend to delete most of my posts within a week. Engage when it's fresh or don't, because unless it's weird art in a photo album, it's going away soon.
Needless to say, I have absolutely nothing personal on the platform.
I think this helps reduce toxicity.
@deutrino how do you do it? any tips?