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Yeah. By their design. If they would allow user control over what shows up in their feed, mine would prioritize friends' content. I'm not the one choosing to turn my feed jnto AI slop based on my alleged interest in the topic.
This. I have to go out of my way to even see my wife's posts (well, before I deleted Facebook).
2/3rds of my feed are ads.
This metric is bullshit because they fucked up the waters.
Try blocking her, the algorithm will prioritize her posts if you do.
Well, I deleted my account so that won't work. But that's crazy if that's true (not doubting you).
I said it as a joke but I suspect it might be true, too. I see a lot of people complaining that they see too many posts of people they block.
One common trick that I occasionally do for friends and pages I follow, and that seems to work, is to unfollow and re-follow.
Others suggest not using "bad" reactions like Angry and Sad on posts from accounts you want to keep seeing, and use Wow instead (that doesn't help given I follow some LGBTQIA+/feminist/leftist pages reporting the clusterfuck that is most of the world)