Hi folks
Following years of success the corporate media has hit back. As a result the numbers of people accessing Dorset Eye dropped significantly.
However, thanks to Tom at Another Angry Voice, we have some top tips to help us recover.
Please see below and do as many as you can xx
1. Diversify: Probably the most important tip of all is to follow your favourite alternative media sources on more than one platform. The best place to follow Dorset Eye is here on UPopulus, where there is no content-hiding algorithm to arbitrarily stop you seeing my posts.
We are mainly active on Facebook where we have by far the most followers, but we also post to different extents on Twitter. We are also very active on Youtube, so it might be worth following us there too.
2. Interact: If you want to keep seeing our posts on Facebook, probably the most important bit of advice is to regularly interact (like, comment, share). The more you do this, the more you’ll be shown that page’s content in your Facebook feed. Even if it’s just hitting the “like” button or leaving a short comment on each post you see from them, this prioritises the page in your feed (We can absolutely guarantee that no page owner is going to be annoyed at likes and/or short replies).
The same goes for Twitter (like, comment, retweet) when you see posts, because if you just scroll past, you’re probably going to stop seeing them fairly soon.
3. Prioritise: Go into the “follow settings” on the Dorset Eye page, and set it as one of your “favourites”. This doesn’t mean you’re guaranteed to see all the AAV Facebook posts, but it does mean you’ll be much more likely to see AAV content than if you don’t do it.
4. Weed: One very simple trick to improve your Facebook/Twitter feed is to weed the accounts that you follow. Go to your follow list and unfollow anything you’re not interested in any more. If you can get your follow list down to the main things you’re really genuinely interested in, the algorithm will be much more likely to keep showing you the posts you actually want to see.
5. Bookmark: Save Dorset Eye page as a bookmark in your usual web browser, and check in on it every now, to see what the Facebook algorithm hasn’t been showing you.
6. Upgrade: Install the Facebook Purity add-on to your web browser. Then select the setting that over-rides the Facebook algorithm and allows you to see your news feed in chronological order. FB Purity is a truly excellent add-on, which dramatically upgrades the whole Facebook experience in multiple ways. There are a few other downloads that allow you to see your Facebook feed in chronological order too: Social Fixer is a browser add-on, and Friendly Browser is an app that works on mobile devices.
I hope you find these tips helpful.
If you have any other tips for defeating social media content-hiding algorithms, please leave a comment in the replies.
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