From a user perspective, doesn't moving non-person-related (actually social media) things to a separate feed make the ux better?
I asked around and many non-tech people think liking a page equals subscribing. Both pages owners and regular users. They think they communicate to each other. Well, in fact they don't.
FB is dangerously close to monopoly if it isn't one already. But I wonder if any gov has the guts to deal with it. Even EU seems to be in bed with Zuck.
Nobody is entitled to the visibility or exclusive treatment on the Facebook. There are much more posts than anybody can read
It seems the media are "disappointed" the same way. And when they don't get the reach on the Facebook that they wrongly expect to "deserve" they wrongly call that "an attack to democracy."
The alternative is not rss. The alternative is news aggregator few months down the line when sites stop asking people to like them.
Users don't go to pages on FB to find new info, they expect to see it in the feed. This way only paid content gets seeing, and otherwise you are SOL.
Not to say that it isn't expected, FB needs to chase growth and likes, but it's still unpleasant in a world where people are making FB synonymous with the internet.