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Same, I have never interacted with their Facebook reels/videos but all the video thumbnails are practically just videos of porn stars/OnlyFans style content. Instagram isn't as bad on the Reels side, you'll get good content there...but the feed itself is dreadful, I never see anything from friends. It's all just slop from bigger brands/publishers. At this point, there are just chat services to me and my friends.

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> Same, I have never interacted with their Facebook reels/videos but all the video thumbnails are practically just videos of porn stars/OnlyFans style content

For me it fluctuates between animals and thirst traps. It's a really odd recommender system.

> Instagram isn't as bad on the Reels side, you'll get good content there...

Seems to depend how far you scroll, the first dozen will usually be good, clean recommendations. After that it goes downhill.

My FB reels are educational content , music and artists.

It is pretty much identical to my YT shorts feed, which means two algorithms have settled on almost identical content.

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