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Alex3917 on Aug 30, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Facebook Is the AOL of 2021

> It never would have hosted the kind of anti-vax-blow-up-the-government stuff and promoted it as prime content like FB.

The most popular content on the service was astrology horoscopes.

cratermoon on Aug 30, 2021 [–]

Which, while stupid, didn't have the effect of blowing up the government or infecting other people. Ask any newspaper of the era what their most popular section is and you'll find the same thing. "Horoscopes"

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