They responded to the criticism of people leaving their platform because the feed was all garbage and no friend updates by making a friends only feed feature you could only enable in the app.
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Facebook has "content preferences" as an option, but you can't put "don't show Reels" in it
Reels are listed 3 at a time so what is "hide this" even doing?
It's kind of the same with Youtube Shorts. Show less of? Okay, very good, we'll just ignore that setting next time
These companies need some serious goddamn competition, there should be real consequences for just ignoring your userbase