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Social media peaked in 2012/2013, before just before recommendation algorithms became a thing. Everything became insufferable afterwards.
TBH, I found FB insufferable already in 2008, when I deleted my back-then 1 y/o account.
Agree, I felt the bad effects of FB around then. It was just so pointless.
That's kind of my feeling too, although it's dangerously close to "better back in my day" given my age.
The period after they shut down browser popups, but before they invented those virtual DOM-hacking popups was great, and that's a measurable change.
Lemmy is nice though