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This is a fools errand. Stop using it for a week. The product is a literal MVP right now and lots of stuff is in the pipeline. You’re spinning your wheels on th

This is a fools errand. Stop using it for a week. The product is a literal MVP right now and lots of stuff is in the pipeline. You’re spinning your wheels on this when shortly you’ll be able to see a different timeline.

542458 3y ago
Yeah, I used threads for a few minutes and quickly discovered that’s it’s just not a product that caters to me… yet. Right now I think it’s probably only great if you’re really into the e-celeb scene. But this is Meta/IG we’re talking about, I’m sure they’ll get their near-freaky level of algorithmic content targeting precision in there soon enough and my feed will become full of stuff I care about. I’ll check back in on it in a couple months.
- Al-Khwarizmi 3y ago
  I discovered that it doesn't cater to me before actually using it. Googled how to use it on desktop, found that there is no way other than emulating the mobile app. Not for me, I pass.
  - intrasight 3y ago
    I expect that they'll add a web client this year. And then we'll be able to add whatever filters we can dream up (and implement)
- internetter 3y ago
  > But this is Meta/IG we’re talking about, I’m sure they’ll get their near-freaky level of algorithmic content targeting precision in there soon enough I keep hearing this. "Oh! The Algorithm gets me so well! It's so freaky!" about TikTok, IG, everything really... But let me tell you how my IG feed goes: I get 3 posts at the top, posted by my friends. I like all of them – even if I didn't like it. I'm just pleading to the algorithm to show me more from the people I care about. I then scroll for another 30 seconds through endless muck of golden retrievers, frat boys, etc. I'm hoping to see another post from my friends, but it just doesn't come. I leave the app for another week, until my friend shows me a post she made 2 weeks ago that was never shown to me. The algorithm makes social media a painful experience I avoid. I've enjoyed Mastodon, Snapchat, and BeReal MAGNITUDES more... Platforms without one, platforms where I'm actually "social".
  - joker_minmax 3y ago
    I primarily use Instagram to follow artists, but yeah, my experience is about the same as what you listed. Before I took a hiatus from it, I just started going directly to my friend's pages to see if they shared anything new, and directly to the artists' pages to see if they were selling prints. Better than being forced to look at ads for essential oils vape pens.
    - iszomer 3y ago
      Same here. These days I only use Instagram to post art made and rendered during my commutes and consume similarly fashioned content. I haven't reached the point in "making prints available" nor have the desire to at this point in time.
  - msravi 3y ago
    Twitter unambiguously separates out the feed of people you're following and the algorithmic feed ("For you") in separate tabs (plus you can pin separate lists as tabs). It also opens up the feed you last used when you open a new session. Plus, the algorithm for the "For you" feed is open source[0] 0. https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm
  - permo-w 3y ago
    exactly. the instagram algorithm is horrendous. until this thread I'd never heard a single person praise it. suspicious? I don't know for example, a while ago a friend sent me 3 or 4 relationship memes. I didn't like the posts, I may, at most, have reacted to one or two in chat, but since then my suggested posts have been 20-30% relationship memes. no matter how many times I say "I am not interested in content like this" or after blocking about 30 of the most common relationship meme hashtags, I still get the same 20-30% of posts, just now they have no or unusual tags. and then more recently, seemingly appropros of nothing this time - bodybuilding/fitness memes! it's the opposite of freakily good
  - fotta 3y ago
    I’ve stopped using the algorithm on IG. Instead I use the “Following” feed (tap the Instagram logo in the top left on the home pane) which is a reverse chronological feed of only the people I follow.
- xeromal 3y ago
  I just signed up for threads to hopefully help annoy Elon which is very petty and useless of course but I ended up following a bunch of nat geo photographers who are all over threads and really enjoy my feed at the moment. Nothing wrong with admiring beautiful pics of the world. That sounds like instagram and you're not wrong, but the photographers themselves are more present so you can ask questions which feels different enough. Also, now is the time to annoy anyone famous on their because even the big dogs only have a few thousand comments. lol
  - joker_minmax 3y ago
    Do you mind dropping the names?
    - xeromal 3y ago
      Yeah, first follow * natgeo : Then you'll start seeing that account replying to its photgraphers and you can build your own list. * michaelgeorge * reuben * cosmic_background (I don't think he's natgeo but still neat) * benashtonart (Also not natgeo but fun)
- joker_minmax 3y ago
  The algorithm on Instagram has never been freaky in how well it targets my interests. It cares not. It just wants me to look at ads. It's always freaky on how well it advertises stuff that would be the most annoying to me based on something I said a few days ago, though. However I haven't been on since April, so maybe they've changed it again.
xg15 3y ago
Yeah, it's not like meta has any other social media platforms to have gathered experience from...
firecall 3y ago
That may be true, but I really don’t think I want to. It’s Instagram in words, and Instagram by and large is an awful, fake and vapid place. Threads might be decent software, but the content is horrible.
- flangola7 3y ago
  What is so bad about Instagram? It's my most used "normie" platform. I don't choose to have fake friends or follow awful creators, so I don't see that on the website.
  - m3kw9 3y ago
    I use instagram occasionally but it’s mostly for eye candy and maybe a few will post stories with vids, it’s really a pure form of internet junk food.
    - jasonladuke0311 3y ago
      If Instagram is eating junk food then Twitter/Threads is trying to find bits of steak in a pool of toxic waste
  - FormerBandmate 3y ago
    It’s not intellectual. I love it, it’s great for workout and vacation pics and seeing what people you know are up to. I get the feeling Twitter powerusers hate it
  - stjohnswarts 3y ago
    I follow a few of my favorite bands and celebrities and my friends and it works well. I wish there was an easy way to filter all reels though. I don't like the tiktok type of experience.
- whalesalad 3y ago
  Instagram is my most used platform. All my closest friends are there. All the top tier meme content is there. Group chat is lit. It’s not a fake and vapid place. All social media are just vehicles to communicate with other people. If you feel it’s fake and vapid you’re just following the wrong crowd.
pdntspa 3y ago
Or just don't use it. LOL at the clown trying to mute accounts, that's like trying to attack waves in the sea.
mvkel 3y ago
Unless I don't want to hook my Insta friends to Threads.

542458 3y ago

Yeah, I used threads for a few minutes and quickly discovered that’s it’s just not a product that caters to me… yet. Right now I think it’s probably only great if you’re really into the e-celeb scene. But this is Meta/IG we’re talking about, I’m sure they’ll get their near-freaky level of algorithmic content targeting precision in there soon enough and my feed will become full of stuff I care about. I’ll check back in on it in a couple months.

Al-Khwarizmi 3y ago
I discovered that it doesn't cater to me before actually using it. Googled how to use it on desktop, found that there is no way other than emulating the mobile app. Not for me, I pass.
- intrasight 3y ago
  I expect that they'll add a web client this year. And then we'll be able to add whatever filters we can dream up (and implement)
internetter 3y ago
> But this is Meta/IG we’re talking about, I’m sure they’ll get their near-freaky level of algorithmic content targeting precision in there soon enough I keep hearing this. "Oh! The Algorithm gets me so well! It's so freaky!" about TikTok, IG, everything really... But let me tell you how my IG feed goes: I get 3 posts at the top, posted by my friends. I like all of them – even if I didn't like it. I'm just pleading to the algorithm to show me more from the people I care about. I then scroll for another 30 seconds through endless muck of golden retrievers, frat boys, etc. I'm hoping to see another post from my friends, but it just doesn't come. I leave the app for another week, until my friend shows me a post she made 2 weeks ago that was never shown to me. The algorithm makes social media a painful experience I avoid. I've enjoyed Mastodon, Snapchat, and BeReal MAGNITUDES more... Platforms without one, platforms where I'm actually "social".
- joker_minmax 3y ago
  I primarily use Instagram to follow artists, but yeah, my experience is about the same as what you listed. Before I took a hiatus from it, I just started going directly to my friend's pages to see if they shared anything new, and directly to the artists' pages to see if they were selling prints. Better than being forced to look at ads for essential oils vape pens.
  - iszomer 3y ago
    Same here. These days I only use Instagram to post art made and rendered during my commutes and consume similarly fashioned content. I haven't reached the point in "making prints available" nor have the desire to at this point in time.
- msravi 3y ago
  Twitter unambiguously separates out the feed of people you're following and the algorithmic feed ("For you") in separate tabs (plus you can pin separate lists as tabs). It also opens up the feed you last used when you open a new session. Plus, the algorithm for the "For you" feed is open source[0] 0. https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm
- permo-w 3y ago
  exactly. the instagram algorithm is horrendous. until this thread I'd never heard a single person praise it. suspicious? I don't know for example, a while ago a friend sent me 3 or 4 relationship memes. I didn't like the posts, I may, at most, have reacted to one or two in chat, but since then my suggested posts have been 20-30% relationship memes. no matter how many times I say "I am not interested in content like this" or after blocking about 30 of the most common relationship meme hashtags, I still get the same 20-30% of posts, just now they have no or unusual tags. and then more recently, seemingly appropros of nothing this time - bodybuilding/fitness memes! it's the opposite of freakily good
- fotta 3y ago
  I’ve stopped using the algorithm on IG. Instead I use the “Following” feed (tap the Instagram logo in the top left on the home pane) which is a reverse chronological feed of only the people I follow.
xeromal 3y ago
I just signed up for threads to hopefully help annoy Elon which is very petty and useless of course but I ended up following a bunch of nat geo photographers who are all over threads and really enjoy my feed at the moment. Nothing wrong with admiring beautiful pics of the world. That sounds like instagram and you're not wrong, but the photographers themselves are more present so you can ask questions which feels different enough. Also, now is the time to annoy anyone famous on their because even the big dogs only have a few thousand comments. lol
- joker_minmax 3y ago
  Do you mind dropping the names?
  - xeromal 3y ago
    Yeah, first follow * natgeo : Then you'll start seeing that account replying to its photgraphers and you can build your own list. * michaelgeorge * reuben * cosmic_background (I don't think he's natgeo but still neat) * benashtonart (Also not natgeo but fun)
joker_minmax 3y ago
The algorithm on Instagram has never been freaky in how well it targets my interests. It cares not. It just wants me to look at ads. It's always freaky on how well it advertises stuff that would be the most annoying to me based on something I said a few days ago, though. However I haven't been on since April, so maybe they've changed it again.

xg15 3y ago

Yeah, it's not like meta has any other social media platforms to have gathered experience from...

firecall 3y ago

That may be true, but I really don’t think I want to. It’s Instagram in words, and Instagram by and large is an awful, fake and vapid place. Threads might be decent software, but the content is horrible.

flangola7 3y ago
What is so bad about Instagram? It's my most used "normie" platform. I don't choose to have fake friends or follow awful creators, so I don't see that on the website.
- m3kw9 3y ago
  I use instagram occasionally but it’s mostly for eye candy and maybe a few will post stories with vids, it’s really a pure form of internet junk food.
  - jasonladuke0311 3y ago
    If Instagram is eating junk food then Twitter/Threads is trying to find bits of steak in a pool of toxic waste
- FormerBandmate 3y ago
  It’s not intellectual. I love it, it’s great for workout and vacation pics and seeing what people you know are up to. I get the feeling Twitter powerusers hate it
- stjohnswarts 3y ago
  I follow a few of my favorite bands and celebrities and my friends and it works well. I wish there was an easy way to filter all reels though. I don't like the tiktok type of experience.
whalesalad 3y ago
Instagram is my most used platform. All my closest friends are there. All the top tier meme content is there. Group chat is lit. It’s not a fake and vapid place. All social media are just vehicles to communicate with other people. If you feel it’s fake and vapid you’re just following the wrong crowd.

pdntspa 3y ago

Or just don't use it. LOL at the clown trying to mute accounts, that's like trying to attack waves in the sea.

mvkel 3y ago

Unless I don't want to hook my Insta friends to Threads.