- Turn on every privacy setting they have available and "serve me up generic ads only"
- Unfollow EVERTYTHING and EVERYONE, cut your friends list down too, or click on the "follow" only of your real most frequent friends of concern except your core groups of interest, pare it down to less than 20-30, and more so if your groups are active.
- Turn off active status except for your top 10 friends/family and treat messenger like email otherwise (I do the same with do not disturb mode on iphone)
- Use the "Most Recent" button on the left and make it a habit so you don't see the same posts over and over.
It become a lot more useful of a tool after that. Everyone whines but like a lot of things for it to be useful you have to put in a little bit of time and trim your hedges instead of letting them grow into amorphous blobs. or delete it, there's not much in between. Also I hate hate hate tiktok and this whole video thing, I don't think they bring very much more useful info to the social media conversation.