> I still enjoy Instagram. It's easy to tailor that to things I want to see I was 100% with you on this up until a few months ago. When they made their big pus

> I still enjoy Instagram. It's easy to tailor that to things I want to see I was 100% with you on this up until a few months ago. When they made their big push for Reels, everything went to shit. Now my feed is full of barely dressed women dancing despite me following no accounts of that nature; I guess for not much reason other than being an 18-34 yo male? I’m not morally opposed by any stretch, but it does make me sort of scared to open the app on the train. I’ve tried following a few hashtags for stuff I’m interesting in (pixel/other digital art, architecture, fancy food), and while some good stuff is surfaced there’s so much hashtag stuffing going on that many of the posts are just unrelated self-promotion. Like Twitter, every few posts there’s an algorithmically suggested post from someone I don’t follow. There’s seemingly no option to turn this off; only opt out for 30 days. In the space of this year Instagram has gone from being the only social network I felt I had a reasonable amount of control over to the one I like using second least (least of course being Facebook itself).