I got tired of the garbage. First of all, I made a decision Facebook is not the center of my life and decided to stop posting personal things on it except for major announcements. I also started doing the following very aggressively:

- unfollowing everyone who only tended to posted stuff I didn't want to see,

- using the "Hide Post", "Hide All From X", and "Hide Ad" options very liberally - if I had any problem at all with the post or ad whatsoever,

- reporting posts that had content I didn't like and even had a hint of violating Facebook policies--none got deleted but I think this affects Facebook's AI.

I'd love to see a list of everything I've blocked and share it, but I don't see how to get that from Facebook.

It took several months, but probably would have been less time if I was a daily Facebook user.

At this point I have no political or news items (things I hid like crazy) on my Facebook at all. I have fun things from groups I've joined and that's it.

It's boring and quiet, and there if I really need it without annoyances.

But it did take some work and it's true, not everyone cares to put in that work. But they'll repost dumb meme stuff all day.