Solution for Facebook: have a second, unfiltered feed

7 points by blublub 11y ago ↗ HN

So with the washingtonpost running a story on Facebook's unfathomable filtering, why don't we ask Facebook to create a second feed: Very simple stuff, show me my friends' stuff, I'll take care of the filtering...

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Spoom 11y ago ↗

There is a (mostly) unfiltered feed available, just change the sort order to Most Recent. You may find that Facebook periodically (or in my case, always) changes it back though.

MalcolmDiggs 11y ago ↗

It seems like most of their advertising model is built on restricting others' access to YOU (force others who would normally show up on your feed to pay for promoted-posts if they really wanna show up). So, though an unfiltered feed might be great for the users, it seems like facebook would be generally opposed to it.

rakoo 11y ago ↗

Sure, ask away. From Facebook's point of view, there is no problem here.

If you really care about that, stop using Facebook or any closed social network: join a decentralized one. If you don't control whatever happens with your data (I consider "how incoming feeds are displayed to me" as part of it), you will always be at the mercy of someone else. Just hope they're nice to you.