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This.

I missed repeated posts from a good friend asking for help. If I had seen them, I would have been there in 10 minutes. They committed suicide exactly 1 month ago. Just goes to show how incredibly important some algorithms can be.

Fuck man. I'm sorry about your friend. That really fucking sucks.

As a hobbyist photographer, I appreciate being able to share my photos, however I don't feel like throwing the "art gallery" at the user. That's why I take a much humbler approach by just posting my pictures to my own personal website's gallery. If someone were to stumble across it, great, otherwise no harm. It also helps that I have canceled my Facebook account.

It's just like how in reddit when the "front page" subs get too popular, the lowest-value, easiest hanging fruit, fastest digestible content (images) always floats to the top, same with the news feed. The lengthy quality discussion posts get bogged down and the popcorn candy content fluff of memes overrun everything.