On: Neal Stephenson: Why I Am a Sociomediapath (2015)

[mistermann]

Well I certainly didn't know that.

Is there a way to make it so it screens out all the content that comes from content factories ("You won't believe....!"), but still see things such as pure text or user-created photo posts?

[philh → mistermann]

You can unfollow individual sites. There's a down arrow in the top-right of a post, you click it and select 'hide all from clickhole'.

I unfollowed a bunch, and now I rarely see that kind of thing.

[greggman → philh]

You can also use "fb purity", an extension that can hide posts based on string matches. For example "liked a post", "commented on", and other annoying things fb fills the feed with