The idea of having to wade through AI generated pictures of Shrimp Jesus and my mad uncle posting about his latest attempts to turn lead into gold (yes, really) to find out about new distros to try seems very alien to me.
In most cases they're pretty radioactive isotopes of gold. But IMO that just makes it feel even more like alchemy. The gold is cursed.
Also, turning lead into gold is easy: Just break all the protons off to get Hydrogen and maybe Helium, then compress it back so you get a star to form, and wait for it to go nova. Or, if you're in a hurry, you can compress your Hydrogen more and if you kind of jiggle it just the right way then you should get some gold along with other heavy elements.
Imagine being confident enough to believe and document that. Crazy? Maybe, but a crazy one can appreciate.
The problem isn't when one uncle is doing this. The problem is when the bulk of the content you see on FB is as crazy as this.
I mean, if you like purchasing the National Enquirer and flipping through it, then by all means, this is for you.
I still prefer that to all of the fake AI-slop message boards and meme/video culture that seems to have replaced it on FB.
The secret is to train your feed by bookmarking the groups and linking to them directly instead of accepting whatever flailing nonsense the algo decides to default to.
Having said that - I hope everyone has worked out by now that when you have a "free speech" culture based on covert curation and moderation of contentious issues, it's not just going to be about porn and trans people.
Non-mainstream (i.e. non-consumer) tech is going to be labelled bad-think and suppressed too.