How to De-fluff Facebook on a Computer...
Run Facebook from a web browser on your computer. These steps don't work on the Mobile App.
I recommend running Vivaldi, which is based on Google Chrome, but is set up to avoid tracking. You could use most browsers – (F.B. Purity is compatible with the following web browsers: Firefox, Google Chrome, Edge, Safari, Opera and Brave running on Windows, Mac, Linux etc.)
The next steps are about using FBP (FB Purity).
Look up FBP at https://www.fbpurity.com
Download and Install FBP
When it is installed, you’ll see an icon for FBP at the top right of your screen
Click on that to open the settings.
You’ll want to try some things out gradually. Things are pretty well labelled. And there is a user manual linked right here on the top page.
Here is how I have set the newsfeed filters.
Notice that I set it to default to the FRIENDS sort for the news feed. That’s key for me.
Another feed type that is useful is MOST RECENT. Both of these feeds are available in regular Facebook, but the app normally defaults to TOP POSTS, which tends to have a lot of extraneous stuff in it. (By design) You can see where I am hiding advertisements, and other fluff.
Tick open the arrow next to Various Post Types. Here you can filter out extraneous post types…
I’m kind of going scorched-earth. Turning off a lot of things you might like, so try them one by one if you don’t know what they are. In my case I’m hiding all videos, and filtering on a troubling subject. I’ll often put in there things that the algorithm wants to show me, which I don’t want to see in my feed. I’m using Donald as an example here.
If you tick on the arrow by Left Coiumn Links
I’m hiding the entire left column, which has a lot of random stuff. That’s pretty extreme, but I like it a lot. Set up other stuff first. There may be things you want to see here. So make your changes gradually.
I recommend saving your settings using the SAVE and CLOSE button, but first you might want to EXPORT your settings with the link at the bottom of the page.
A couple things to note. When you want to create a post after setting this up, you may see that the usual Dialog Box is missing at the top of the page. There is now a link on the left to CREATE NEW POST, or you can click BACK TO TOP FEEDS, to show the usual “What’s on your mind” dialog box. It’s in Blue text on my screen which is hard to see…
Good luck! For more information take a look at the documentation here:
https://www.fbpurity.com/user-guide.htm
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