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I used Instagram everyday, mainly to follow local restaurants and shops. The new feed is awful and made me uninstall it, because it’s now: - 1/3 ads - 1/3 sug
by thiht 4y ago
I used Instagram everyday, mainly to follow local restaurants and shops. The new feed is awful and made me uninstall it, because it’s now:
- 1/3 ads
- 1/3 suggested content
- 1/3 actual content I followed, among which more and more tended to be sponsored
That’s just not worth my time.
- mjhagen 4y agoYup, they finally did it. Same thing they did to FB to get me to leave is now leading me to leave one of the apps I really loved to use when it first came out.
- prawn 4y agoExactly. It ends up feeling like almost everything you're watching is advertising. If you use Instagram passively like television, you're watching usually-polished content interspersed with ads, which probably feels OK. Maybe this is the majority of people. If you use Instagram just to follow friends, unless their content is all very polished (it generally isn't - it's them walking their kid to school or a basic photo at the beach) then your feed feels like: 1/6th mediocre (but relevant to you) content 1/6th creator-type friends promoting places/things 1/3rd suggested content 1/3rd ads Not a great ratio at all. Especially when the suggested content has been ramped up and the ads feel like they've doubled or tripled. Went from my favourite platform to most despised, which is quite an achievement for the Meta brains-trust.