But wouldn't that feedback loop work the other way too? That there's someone saying "as more toxic liberal garbage gets reshared, conservatives start ditching Facebook"? Leaving just the people who enjoy screaming at each other?
it works both ways, the ironic thing is people on either side of the spectrum believe they're the good ones and the other side that should be removed by facebook, and don't recognize they're part of the problem themselves.
I miss the days when Facebook was about sharing personal connections, stupid and fun stuff, as a shy kid in high school who didn't speak very good English, facebook has helped me made friends and connect with kids in my school as I was more comfortable talking to them online. Hard to imagine that would ever take place with the way Facebook is today, where you log on to scream at other people's political opinions which are different from yours.
Made a very similar joke a few weeks ago. I quote, verbatim, myself: "I can't believe this, but I actually miss when Facebook was full of baby pictures and food pictures." Finally just gave in and deleted the profile at the 1st of Sept.
You're assuming that the reward function is giving you the community you want. In reality the reward function is to maximize engagement, which is a proxy for ad revenue. When there's an asymmetry in engagement dynamics then the whole thing drifts. The mass fallacy here is that FB is trying to build communities.
The "engagement" that you're talking about is causing other people to leave, so I don't know how that works in FB's advantage here.
If they really wanted to maximize "engagement" they would actually hide all of the political posts and rage inducing comments and show nothing but cat pictures.
Well, parler is seeing explosive growth for a reason (though parler is more of a twitter clone). Looks like the two tribes just can't handle being on the same social networks together anymore. So we're retreating further into our own echo chambers.
