Yeah, so, uh, m.facebook.com has made a sudden and radical change in the last few days. I’m not sure what’s going on, but it’s currently not usable for me. I don’t know if that’s happening to multiple people.
I use Friendly social Browser on Android. It’s basically a wrapper for the mobile website and allows me to sort posts the way I want them, which is important to me. I don’t want the algorithm. I’ve used it for years. It works with quite a few different social media sites and doesn’t allow all the tracking. I have the Plus version and I’m allowed to turn off ads on both the app and Facebook and block “stories” and other silliness I don’t care for. I don’t know if the free version does all of that.
It sure is. It was much more buggy in the past but I don’t really see many issues now. My husband uses the official FB app and he complains about issues with it all the time. I think the number of bugs is comparable. I used to sometimes not have many comments load if I didn’t manually refresh but he had the same issue on his app at the time and refreshing didn’t help. I don’t use social media other than FB and all I really want is to see my family and friend’s posts sorted by Most Recent, and a few news profiles I follow, so it’s good enough for me.
It currently works with the official mobile site. It would be great if it were more like old reddit but I just opened it for the first time and it’s miles better than using Chrome on mobile for me just because of the ad blocker and ability to keep the feed from suggesting random shit.
Companies that do this absolutely annoy me. Even Facebook doesn’t do this??
Yeah, so, uh, m.facebook.com has made a sudden and radical change in the last few days. I’m not sure what’s going on, but it’s currently not usable for me. I don’t know if that’s happening to multiple people.
Oh what the hell, L Facebook if that’s the case
Are there third party Facebook apps?
I use Friendly social Browser on Android. It’s basically a wrapper for the mobile website and allows me to sort posts the way I want them, which is important to me. I don’t want the algorithm. I’ve used it for years. It works with quite a few different social media sites and doesn’t allow all the tracking. I have the Plus version and I’m allowed to turn off ads on both the app and Facebook and block “stories” and other silliness I don’t care for. I don’t know if the free version does all of that.
Is it still working? I remember there was a period of time when it was unusable.
I then switched to Frost and now to SlimSocial for Facebook.
It sure is. It was much more buggy in the past but I don’t really see many issues now. My husband uses the official FB app and he complains about issues with it all the time. I think the number of bugs is comparable. I used to sometimes not have many comments load if I didn’t manually refresh but he had the same issue on his app at the time and refreshing didn’t help. I don’t use social media other than FB and all I really want is to see my family and friend’s posts sorted by Most Recent, and a few news profiles I follow, so it’s good enough for me.
Think something like Friendly could be put together as a wrapper around old.reddit.com? Modifies the formatting to make it mobile-friendly.
It currently works with the official mobile site. It would be great if it were more like old reddit but I just opened it for the first time and it’s miles better than using Chrome on mobile for me just because of the ad blocker and ability to keep the feed from suggesting random shit.
Yep there are open source ones even