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Facebook has definitely not left it as the "same old Instagram". They've changed the home feed algorithm to basically the same as the Facebook home feed algorit

Facebook has definitely not left it as the "same old Instagram". They've changed the home feed algorithm to basically the same as the Facebook home feed algorithm, and there's been a lot of content creators negatively impacted by it (I know this because of the industry my wife works in, which is having major issues now, where engagement has basically halved among anybody except the top maybe 5% of content creators).

BinaryIdiot 9y ago
So here's the thing: Facebook said they'd leave Instagram to be Instagram. But saying Facebook isn't holding that promise because things have changed isn't necessarily accurate. The people in charge of Instagram may have used more and more of Facebook's tools, looked at better analytics, tweaked, used lessons learned from Facebook, etc. While I agree it's unlikely that Facebook left them entirely alone I don't think it's necessarily fair to say they meddled just because things have changed. Nothing stays the same especially in the tech industry.
- wand3r 9y ago
  I agree with this. I a sure there were changes for the better and worse do to the acquisition; but Systrom said that Instagram retained a lot of autonomy. I am not a user of FB or IG but certainly over several years the platform would change; all good tech products evolve. Contrasting this with Oculus; I think IG was given a lot less hands on MGMT.
- kalleboo 9y ago
  Not to mention that Twitter is moving in the same direction
  - majewsky 9y ago
    In 5 years we have the short-message Facebook (Twitter), the image Facebook (Instagram), the news Facebook (Facebook), the video Facebook (Youtube), maybe also the source code Facebook (Github [1]). That must be the market-driven diversity that my economics teachers loved to tell me all about. [1] That one is a bit of a stretch, but you can already "follow people" and they market themselves as a social network, so...
RandomInteger4 9y ago
I see all the posts of anyone I follow in the temporal order in which they post. Do you even selfie bro?
threeseed 9y ago
Organising content by what is relevant or interesting to you as an individual is hardly specific to Facebook or Instagram. Many companies are doing something the same thing e.g. Pinterest, Netflix, YouTube. Even companies like banks are using individual Next Best Action models to determine what marketing decision is right specifically for you rather than something generic to your demographic.

BinaryIdiot 9y ago

So here's the thing: Facebook said they'd leave Instagram to be Instagram. But saying Facebook isn't holding that promise because things have changed isn't necessarily accurate. The people in charge of Instagram may have used more and more of Facebook's tools, looked at better analytics, tweaked, used lessons learned from Facebook, etc. While I agree it's unlikely that Facebook left them entirely alone I don't think it's necessarily fair to say they meddled just because things have changed. Nothing stays the same especially in the tech industry.

wand3r 9y ago
I agree with this. I a sure there were changes for the better and worse do to the acquisition; but Systrom said that Instagram retained a lot of autonomy. I am not a user of FB or IG but certainly over several years the platform would change; all good tech products evolve. Contrasting this with Oculus; I think IG was given a lot less hands on MGMT.
kalleboo 9y ago
Not to mention that Twitter is moving in the same direction
- majewsky 9y ago
  In 5 years we have the short-message Facebook (Twitter), the image Facebook (Instagram), the news Facebook (Facebook), the video Facebook (Youtube), maybe also the source code Facebook (Github [1]). That must be the market-driven diversity that my economics teachers loved to tell me all about. [1] That one is a bit of a stretch, but you can already "follow people" and they market themselves as a social network, so...

RandomInteger4 9y ago

I see all the posts of anyone I follow in the temporal order in which they post. Do you even selfie bro?

threeseed 9y ago

Organising content by what is relevant or interesting to you as an individual is hardly specific to Facebook or Instagram. Many companies are doing something the same thing e.g. Pinterest, Netflix, YouTube. Even companies like banks are using individual Next Best Action models to determine what marketing decision is right specifically for you rather than something generic to your demographic.