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I don't encounter bots on Facebook that much, but they're definitely ruining Instagram. Years ago, I'd be more open to making "Instagram friends". However nowa

by et-al 9y ago

I don't encounter bots on Facebook that much, but they're definitely ruining Instagram. Years ago, I'd be more open to making "Instagram friends". However nowadays when I get a few likes, I go to the user's profile and see that their followers/following ratio is skewed, I know they're fishing for followers with a bot. Ultimately all interactions on social media will be scripted by bots.

taftster 9y ago
Et-al's Law: "All interactions on social media will be scripted by bots" If you add Atwood's Law to this, all social media interactions will be scripted by bots written in Javascript. Then the brain-bender: What if you are that bot?
cfpg 9y ago
Not only bots are ruining Instagram, their algorithm showing you posts from 3 days ago and an ad every 8-10 pictures is a killer, pretty much forcing me to only see stories. "Oh let me show you this picture that you missed 4 days ago when we where showing you pictures that are 8 days old."
toomanybeersies 9y ago
I went through a bit of a phase for a week or two of trying to get more followers on my photography insta. It didn't take me long at all to realise that the vast majority of new followers were either just straight up spambots, or were using bots to fish for followers. Botting to fish for followers in Insta isn't the worst, usually it's just automating what a person would do: search for a hashtag; like photos; and drop some comments. But it really kills engagement when most comments are something like "Nice! :thumbs:", or "Love this! :heart:", and you know that 90% of accounts that follow you will automatically unfollow you in a week. Instagrams social discovery aspect has been ruined. It has been taken over by bots and groups of people on whatsapp/$messaging_service that schedule when to post and all like the photo the moment it gets posted to boost it to the discover page. It has become all about gaming the algorithm.

by et-al 9y ago

taftster 9y ago

Et-al's Law: "All interactions on social media will be scripted by bots" If you add Atwood's Law to this, all social media interactions will be scripted by bots written in Javascript. Then the brain-bender: What if you are that bot?

cfpg 9y ago

Not only bots are ruining Instagram, their algorithm showing you posts from 3 days ago and an ad every 8-10 pictures is a killer, pretty much forcing me to only see stories. "Oh let me show you this picture that you missed 4 days ago when we where showing you pictures that are 8 days old."

toomanybeersies 9y ago

I went through a bit of a phase for a week or two of trying to get more followers on my photography insta. It didn't take me long at all to realise that the vast majority of new followers were either just straight up spambots, or were using bots to fish for followers. Botting to fish for followers in Insta isn't the worst, usually it's just automating what a person would do: search for a hashtag; like photos; and drop some comments. But it really kills engagement when most comments are something like "Nice! :thumbs:", or "Love this! :heart:", and you know that 90% of accounts that follow you will automatically unfollow you in a week. Instagrams social discovery aspect has been ruined. It has been taken over by bots and groups of people on whatsapp/$messaging_service that schedule when to post and all like the photo the moment it gets posted to boost it to the discover page. It has become all about gaming the algorithm.