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> Signal is designed with the assumption that data is sensitive and you should err on the side of destroying it.

That's... Just not true

> Facebook is designed more as a shared scrapbook

Have you used Facebook in the last 5 years? Its nothing like this at all.

> Have you used Facebook in the last 5 years? Its nothing like this at all.

I use it all the time. Yesterday I was talking to a friend, and we were reminiscing about visiting another friend's house, and we looked up some old birthday party invitations to help us remember when we had been there.

This is exactly what I want Facebook for. The network has all this value baked in, but they'll have to look past its obsession with ads and slop.

Honestly it's all there, if you use the "feeds" view in the menu it cuts out all the random influencer garbage. The search, especially the event search, is not great, but honestly I hope they don't touch it because I'm more worried about them enshittifying it further than I am about getting some creature comforts.

When Facebook was food this was how it was used and what people liked. Nobody would care what they've done to the product in the past 10 years to optimize for money over mental health

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