• flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz
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    1 month ago

    I think Meta is doing a decent job with Instagram. I mean except for collecting all possible data and psychological profiling of users to serve them targeted ads, it’s a decent enough platform. And the only one still allowing for engagement with your actual friends rather than exclusively professional content creators.

    • Aniki 🌱🌿@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 month ago

      WTF are you on about? no one likes instagram shorts and the feed is a jumbled mess of bullshit and advertisements. I deleted mine a long time ago and don’t regret it for a second.

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        1 month ago

        no one likes instagram shorts

        it’s “reels” i think tiktok recommends better videos, but IG has closed the gap in recent years.

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      1 month ago

      I really don’t understand how people use Instagram. I’ve tried, but it’s about 45% ads, 10-15% posts by people I don’t follow, it’s not in chronological order (or any sense of order for that matter), and regardless of whether I was on there yesterday or 2 months ago, it’ll show me about 40 posts before saying “You’re all caught up from the past 3 days!” and then refuse to show me any more.

      I guess this is why I’m here on Lemmy and went crawling back to Tumblr, one of the last vestiges of the old internet. At this point, I’d rather watch a platform die than become marketable to advertisers and shareholders.

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        26 days ago

        Yes the random feed filled with ads unrelated post suggestions and limited to three days is the main issue. i use an Instagram mod but they didn’t manage yet to replace the main feed with the friend only feed you can get by clicking on the Instagram button

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      1 month ago

      I mean except for collecting all possible data and psychological profiling of users to serve them targeted ads, it’s a decent enough platform.

      It’s not. Instagram is popular the way it is because “It’s going to be a lot harder to pull off massive protests” there.

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          1 month ago

          …OK, well I guess we wait until the wrong person is in charge of that division. Also I’m old because that feels like yesterday…fuck.