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Yes, I read that quote in befuddlement. The only things I _want_ to see are my family and friends, but Zuck keeps shoving softcore porn into my feed.

mnky9800n 1y ago
you could just delete your accounts. i find that my family and friends still seek out connection and interactions with me, as i do them, even without some sort of computational facilitator like instagram.
- CharlieDigital 1y ago
  Easy Asian countries still appear to be heavy FB users even among Millennials. Most of my family is there so it is how I keep tabs on them.
  - grugagag 1y ago
    Don’t be surprised if your family gets radicalized with some idea they were against just a generation ago. Facebook and social media is so many bad things at the same time: propaganda, surveilance, consumerism, deception, addiction, and complete isolation from one another. I find social media responsible for a lot of modern ills in our society.
  - tboyd47 1y ago
    Net neutrality is not a thing there and telcos usually offer free GBs of FB/TikTok access.
chrisco255 1y ago
IG has slowly become a gateway to OF hasn't it?
- martin_a 1y ago
  My recommendations are _full_ of girls with very few clothes on doing sports, showcasing outfits and whatnot. IG is just broken at this point.
  - netsharc 1y ago
    But is it not observing what grabs your attention, and then serving you more of it? ;-) I get what you're getting too, also wall-of-texts multi-image posts, often content reposted from reddit, I guess the algorithm thinks "Oh, user is engaged for many seconds with all the images on posts like this, gotta serve them more of them!". I've programmed Tasker to kill Instagram after a minute of me opening it and I've made another Tasker script that asks me to input a 9-digit random number, makes me wait between 5-45 seconds and then allows me 10 minutes of the app before making me do the whole process again.
    - martin_a 1y ago
      Women with few clothes (sadly) always grab my attention, yes. But I think that content is also being pushed despite my attention to other things because it works in general. But you get the point, the recommendations are just a stream of nonsense-content, screenshots of screenshots of Reddit posts... I don't get it. Either there's no good, original content available out there or the algorithm just doesn't want to show it.
    - ceejayoz 1y ago
      > But is it not observing what grabs your attention, and then serving you more of it? I'm reasonably certain clicking into a piece of content to block the account still counts as more engagement for that type of content. They don't seem to have a "clicked, then immediately blocked" sort of signal.
  - vlachen 1y ago
    There is a workaround to clean up IG: I only use the browser to view it, even on mobile, and I use Firefox + uBlock Origin and the following filter: www.instagram.com##article:has-text(Suggested for you):style(visibility: hidden !important; height: 300px !important; overflow: hidden !important)

mnky9800n 1y ago

you could just delete your accounts. i find that my family and friends still seek out connection and interactions with me, as i do them, even without some sort of computational facilitator like instagram.

CharlieDigital 1y ago
Easy Asian countries still appear to be heavy FB users even among Millennials. Most of my family is there so it is how I keep tabs on them.
- grugagag 1y ago
  Don’t be surprised if your family gets radicalized with some idea they were against just a generation ago. Facebook and social media is so many bad things at the same time: propaganda, surveilance, consumerism, deception, addiction, and complete isolation from one another. I find social media responsible for a lot of modern ills in our society.
- tboyd47 1y ago
  Net neutrality is not a thing there and telcos usually offer free GBs of FB/TikTok access.

chrisco255 1y ago

IG has slowly become a gateway to OF hasn't it?

martin_a 1y ago
My recommendations are _full_ of girls with very few clothes on doing sports, showcasing outfits and whatnot. IG is just broken at this point.
- netsharc 1y ago
  But is it not observing what grabs your attention, and then serving you more of it? ;-) I get what you're getting too, also wall-of-texts multi-image posts, often content reposted from reddit, I guess the algorithm thinks "Oh, user is engaged for many seconds with all the images on posts like this, gotta serve them more of them!". I've programmed Tasker to kill Instagram after a minute of me opening it and I've made another Tasker script that asks me to input a 9-digit random number, makes me wait between 5-45 seconds and then allows me 10 minutes of the app before making me do the whole process again.
  - martin_a 1y ago
    Women with few clothes (sadly) always grab my attention, yes. But I think that content is also being pushed despite my attention to other things because it works in general. But you get the point, the recommendations are just a stream of nonsense-content, screenshots of screenshots of Reddit posts... I don't get it. Either there's no good, original content available out there or the algorithm just doesn't want to show it.
  - ceejayoz 1y ago
    > But is it not observing what grabs your attention, and then serving you more of it? I'm reasonably certain clicking into a piece of content to block the account still counts as more engagement for that type of content. They don't seem to have a "clicked, then immediately blocked" sort of signal.
- vlachen 1y ago
  There is a workaround to clean up IG: I only use the browser to view it, even on mobile, and I use Firefox + uBlock Origin and the following filter: www.instagram.com##article:has-text(Suggested for you):style(visibility: hidden !important; height: 300px !important; overflow: hidden !important)