Comment by wwweston

> There has actually been a friends-only feed on FB for years. Timelines -> Friends filters everything down.

I remember when this was called "Lists", and I carefully gathered acquaintances into lists. When I wanted to check in with particular list, I clicked on the list.

Then the lists sidebar disappeared (but you could still get the functionality if you knew the URL / argument structure).

Then the functionality disappeared.

I'm sure some product/UX staff did career making things on a metric somewhere.

> The problem? Nobody I care about posts anymore. The "flywheel" is broken.

Why post when there's no guarantee who/anyone will see it amongst a firehose of bait-y and often angry stuff?

This is part of the anti-flywheel which draws towards doomscroll.

> group chats

Group chats have the baseline virtue of knowing who your audience is.

They're missing other virtues, but that's probably another conversation.