If Facebook is reducing the amount of controversial news that users see, I think that's a really good thing for society (since presumably this means that fake news and rage bait news is de-prioritized as well.) But it is very shitty that Facebook has so much power over so many companies. It's upsetting that a single company has so much power over what people see online.
this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2023
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Facebook gave traffic to links? In my experience Facebook is the worst platform for external content, almost no body sees the post.
If only there was some kind of a protocol, widely supported, that would allow publishers to push content to their readers directly. Readers could "subscribe" to (say) "channels", which would get populated with items published by publishers.
It could be a really simple method of sindication! I even saw a nice icon that I think would work well for it:
