Readit NewsBouncer (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bouncer-text-messages-blocker/... / https://github.com/afterxleep/Bouncer) is a free and open source SMS filtering app that has saved my sanity over the past couple of years. You need to manually set up filters, but once you do, the amount of political spam drops to 0.
It uses iOS’s SMS Filtering framework, which does the filtering in a privacy-preserving way: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/sms_and_call_repor...
martingordon commented on What “The Social Dilemma” Gets Wrong [pdf] about.fb.com/wp-content/u... · Posted by u/martingordon
People may upvote the submission because they care about the discussion, not because they think Facebook response is good (I didn’t upvote myself, but that what I would do).
Yep, I submitted not because I agree with it (I actually think it's a pretty laughable response) but because I think it warrants discussion.
I would have gone with a more editorialized title but the submission guidelines prohibit it.
martingordon commented on What “The Social Dilemma” Gets Wrong [pdf] about.fb.com/wp-content/u... · Posted by u/martingordon
That's total time spent on social media. According to the source, Facebook's usage is 38 minutes a day. I suppose this also counts people who don't use Facebook though.
Ack, you're totally right. I pulled that link from this https://sproutsocial.com/insights/facebook-stats-for-markete..., which makes that stat sound like it's Facebook-specific.
https://www.broadbandsearch.net/blog/average-daily-time-on-s... puts it at 58 minutes, and https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/06/business/facebook-bends-t... (from 2016) notes that it's 50 minutes (apparently reporting by FB in an earnings report).
martingordon commented on What “The Social Dilemma” Gets Wrong [pdf] about.fb.com/wp-content/u... · Posted by u/martingordon
> The average person spends 1h15m on FB
Source? That sounds very high. Regardless, it's definitely a silly statistic. It could be that people just lost interest in Facebook.
Source is here: https://www.emarketer.com/content/average-social-media-time-...
Not sure how they collected the data though.
martingordon commented on What “The Social Dilemma” Gets Wrong [pdf] about.fb.com/wp-content/u... · Posted by u/martingordon
"Wow! 50M hours a day of time saved seems like a lot. How could they be evil if they're getting people to spend less time on FB?"
50M hours / 1.5B DAU is about .03 hours, or about <2 minutes per person. The average person spends 1h15m on FB, this is less than a 3% drop in overall time, but likely a larger proportion of that time is spent scrolling and seeing more ads than it is fixed on a single video.
Does anyone have links / suggestions on how to set this up?