so i don't exactly know what has happened to facebook, or what i have done specifically somehow to the part of the algorithm that controls my feed, but after several years of ignoring it i am now semi-regularly popping in to communicate with family for whom that is the entire internet. if you haven't used facebook what you need to know is that it inserts suggested posts into your feed constantly and there is no way to dismiss them. i would say a good 60% of my timeline is suggested bullshit i do not want to see and never asked to see. when i first started using it again this past summer, all of these suggested posts tended toward weird body horror imagery and were from various countries that are not the one i live in, such as the Phillipines and Ghana. since i've been using facebook more regularly, these posts have leveled out, so to speak, in that they are now all in English and not so centered on body horror, but the actual content is just totally untethered from me personally yet seems to be inducted from people in my family or hometown (eg, videos of pickup trucks "rolling coal") or things i cannot tie to anything at all in my life or the lives of people i know (eg, a woman cosplaying as a World War I medic riding a bicycle around France). and that's my facebook story for today
The Facebook algorithm is weird and I don't know how anyone puts up with it. All 10 of the top posts last month came from a single page, "Catholic Fundamentalism", run by some rando who doesn't even seem to be trying to game the algorithm or anything
