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That makes a lot of sense. My Facebook feed is almost 100% hobby stuff now. Sometimes my wife will say "hey did you see this thing that [family member] posted" and I haven't. And I assume the reason I haven't, is because the content from my hobbies is crowding out the original purpose of Facebook (connect with friends and family.)

Worst of all, is that Facebook is a terrible platform for hobby stuff. Plain ol' PHP forums are much better for that; they're much easier to navigate, easier to search, easier to host pictures on, etc.

I frequently find myself posting something on one of the Facebook hobby forums, then realizing that:

* the signal to noise ratio isn't great, because there's a ton of people spamming those forums with products and other social media that they're trying to promote, YT in particular.

* Facebook isn't great for long posts.




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