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Instagram's algorithmic feed is hot garbage. I went through a two week period where it would ONLY show posts from three or four of the ~2,000 accounts I follow.
by ivraatiems 8y ago
Instagram's algorithmic feed is hot garbage. I went through a two week period where it would ONLY show posts from three or four of the ~2,000 accounts I follow. Those accounts also happened to belong to big-ish companies, compared to most others I'm following, which are individuals or small organizations. It got so bad I had to unfollow them just to get any other content in my feed. And because I can't trust the feed, I keep a mental list of accounts (maybe 5-6) to "check on" manually for content, which is way more work than I should have to spend on a photo-sharing app.
If I could switch back to chronological feeds, in exchange for double the ads or something, I'd do it. It'd waste less of my time.
Also, Instagram banned me from following via the app for about five months with no communication or explanation. I think it thought I was a bot, but can't be sure. Not the customer but the product, indeed.
- pavel_lishin 8y ago> And because I can't trust the feed, I keep a mental list of accounts (maybe 5-6) to "check on" manually for content, which is way more work than I should have to spend on a photo-sharing app. I use a third-party app for Twitter, since they've abandoned any relationship with chronological reality, but even so I keep a separate list of people whose tweets I absolutely don't want to miss that I check every few days. Gosh, I miss RSS.
- htor 8y agorss is alive and well! why did you stop using it?
- toomanybeersies 8y agoMy Instagram has turned into a National Geographic browser.
- mkirklions 8y agoMine has turned into hot girls and yoga. You click on 1 too many photos of a girls chest popping out of her shirt and you lose control of your IG.
- munificent 8y agoThe real question here is whether the algorithm is correctly reflecting your interests or not. Are we our ego or our id?
- fjsolwmv 8y agoSuppose my ranked preferences (by assertion, watch time, and also ad interaction, and) of context mix may be 30% yoga, then 15% yoga, then 100% yoga. Suppose IG only offers 100% yoga or 10%, based on my click activity. Ego and id may be fully compatible but it IG is still failing for my use case.
- jeffmould 8y agoI used to like following National Geographic, but they post so much it takes over my feed. Ended up unfollowing solely for that reason.
- toomanybeersies 8y agoI've started following specific National Geographic photographers that I really like instead.
- SnowingXIV 8y agoAgreed. I picked up an interest in golf lately so I followed maybe 1-3 players and now that's all I see. Everything in my feed and the explore is golf. Which, granted could be worse and I don't hate it but now I feel like it's no longer a social app just a golf feed.