Ask HN: How much more desperate and crappy can Facebook get?

For the past year or so, I have significantly reduced my usage of Facebook, I have stopped posting status updates, mainly just keeping my account for getting event invitations. Today for the first time, I noticed a "Stories from across Facebook" feature that shows content that have absolutely nothing to do with the lives of people you know, but random news articles on all sorts of topics (god knows if half of these news sources are even credible). Did a quick search of this feature, apparently it's been introduced a few months back and there is no way for users to turn it off. Their support team simply dismissed everyone by telling them to submit product feedback rather than addressing the question on how to turn off the feature: https://www.facebook.com/help/community/question/?id=10216902612096563

I am once again deeply disappointed by how aggressively Facebook tries to shove things down their users throats. And at this point, it really seems more like desperation to me. It's like "none of your friends have new posts, here make sure you read some news that have never been verified". I'm aware more and more of my friends have became less active on Facebook and moved off to other platforms such as instagram or snapchat, but wow, is it really become that big of graveyard now that they have to rely on showing you irrelevant content?

Just wanted to rant, and on the side, what does everyone use to organize and discover events as an alternative to Facebook?