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Instagram is one of the last social media platforms I use. It's mostly about my dogs. I follow mostly greyhound people. My feed is about half greyhounds and hal
by bedast 4y ago
Instagram is one of the last social media platforms I use. It's mostly about my dogs. I follow mostly greyhound people. My feed is about half greyhounds and half ads.
Increasing ad load from that? I guess it's time to retire my Instagram account.
This might be the thing that gets me to bite the bullet and actually check out Pixelfed.
- etrautmann 4y agoI was curious to check this out but it looks like Pixelfed is locked and not accepting new registrations right now?
- bedast 4y agoYou can host your own and it's federated. The "fed" part makes it a portmanteau of "pixel federated". There's also multiple other hosts you can sign up to.
- tomjen3 4y agoCan I ask you, what are those ads you see? Are they mostly related to greyhounds?
- netsharc 4y agoFB/IG has a "Why am I seeing this ad?" and you can see what demographics being targeted are, e.g. location, gender, age range. Funnily enough, Facebook has been showing me ads for lingerie the last few days, although I put in real age and gender (male), and it should know I'm single...
- tomjen3 4y agoIt is probably somebody trying to sell to a new market (men buying gifts for their dates). I got so many ads for dating sites and related crap when I set my FB status to single. I will never get why FB shows so terrible ads when they supposedly know so much about us.
- bedast 4y agoWhat have you been searching/browsing? ;) Instagram uses Facebook/Meta algorithms for serving ads, which includes behavior. I almost never post anything about diabetes in Instagram, but because many other sites (ie: reddit) use Facebook libraries for whatever reason they are using them, Facebook knows I'm diabetic, and I get served ads for diabetes products, bogus supplements that "cure" diabetes, health programs that use diabetes products for non-diabetes purposes (yes, this is a thing), and so on. If a site uses a FB tracker library (which is going to be part of FB based auth), your usage is tracked and info based on that is used to serve ads across all Meta products.
- bedast 4y agoAlmost no greyhound related ads. I see occasional pet related ads, but not nearly as common as bogus health supplements, diabetes related stuff (I'm diabetic), random garbage I don't care about, Amazon, and other accounts.
- exabrial 4y agoPixelfed looks incredible, but we need all of the "influencers" to install it for it to matter
- bedast 4y agoI don't really care about all of that. Really, I'm more of the "shouting into the void" kind of situation as I know no one cares about my postings, but I do it anyway. So Pixelfed wouldn't really change things for me except give me a better experience while shouting into the void.
- rchaud 4y agoHow did TikTok become popular without influencers?
- bedast 4y agoIt's probably a combination of things that exist today, that did not exist when Vine was around, which did have influencers and still failed. Tiktok started as a Chinese only service. China has restricted access to the global internet, so having their own video social media platform was a big deal. It built up a huge audience. When it went global, it had a built-in audience of viewers and creators. Yeah, they may be Chinese, but an American or British or what-have-you outside of China person posting a video on there and watching viewer counts go brrrrr makes you want to do it some more. It attracts other users and creators. So a combination of timing, exclusivity to a region with restricted global internet, and simplicity in the design makes it attractive. An excellent trojan horse to collect data on a massive number of people around the world.