You’ll still be able to opt out.
Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data
If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect
How to stop Meta from tracking you: A privacy checklist | Proton
Meta tracks far more than your Facebook activity. Here's how to limit its surveillance across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads.
For You, For Everyone - Graze Newsletter
How Graze built a "composable personalization" engine for the open social web — and why it matters right now.
For You, For Everyone - Graze Newsletter
How Graze built a "composable personalization" engine for the open social web — and why it matters right now.
Algorithmic Choice with Custom Feeds - Bluesky
Our implementation of algorithmic choice lets users customize one of the most important parts of their social media experience: their feed.
Custom Feeds Are Not Communities — A Design Theory of Feeds and Commons - Nightflight
Meta fed its AI on almost everything you’ve posted publicly since 2007
Making Facebook and Instagram private won’t delete that data.
Scoop: Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation
This comes just two weeks after Meta and YouTube were found negligent in a landmark case about social media addiction.
Bonsai: Intentional and Personalized Social Media Feeds
Social media feeds use predictive models to maximize engagement, often misaligning how people consume content with how they wish to. We introduce Bonsai, a system that enables people to build personalized and intentional feeds. Bonsai implements a platform-agnostic framework comprising Planning, Sourcing, Curating, and Ranking modules. This framework allows users to express their intent in natural language and exert fine-grained control over a procedurally transparent feed creation process. We evaluated the system with 15 Bluesky users in a two-phase, multi-week study. We find that participants successfully used our system to discover new content, filter out irrelevant or toxic posts, and disentangle engagement from intent, but curating intentional feeds required more effort than they are used to. Simultaneously, users sought system transparency mechanisms to effectively use (and trust) intentional, personalized feeds. Overall, our work highlights intentional feedbuilding as a viable path beyond engagement-based optimization.
ActivityPub
Connect your site to the Open Social Web and let millions of users follow, share, and interact with your content from Mastodon, Pixelfed, and more.
Meta’s going to put AI-generated images in your Facebook and Instagram feeds
Facebook and Instagram feeds are about to get messier.
Cool new feature from the @graze.social team: add personalization to your feeds. Lots of details about their approach to "composable personalization" in this post graze.leaflet.pub/3mgascfb6uc2e
For You, For Everyone - Graze Newsletter
graze.leaflet.pub@toni.bsky.team @alexbenzer.com i think yall need to wrestle with the fact that the app’s most distinctive feature (“custom feeds”) is something only (relative) nerds use and benefit from. normal people won’t swipe between many algorithms or whatever. have a look at past designs for “communities”
Last week, the Bluesky app shipped a content visibility declaration setting to let people opt out of having their posts appear in feeds like Discover. How your app might use that setting is all about intent and reach. bsky.network/blog/content-visibility-decla…
Using the Content Visibility Declaration
bsky.networkNow you can opt out of having your posts shown to non-followers in the Discover feed. We know not everyone wants to go viral. Sometimes you're just posting for your followers. This is one of a few updates we're working on to give you more control over your experience and help you find your people.
