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Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible (www.theverge.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] -5 points 2 years ago* (9 children)

I think Meta is doing a decent job with Instagram. I mean except for collecting all possible data and psychological profiling of users to serve them targeted ads, it's a decent enough platform. And the only one still allowing for engagement with your actual friends rather than exclusively professional content creators.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    WTF are you on about? no one likes instagram shorts and the feed is a jumbled mess of bullshit and advertisements. I deleted mine a long time ago and don't regret it for a second.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I really don't understand how people use Instagram. I've tried, but it's about 45% ads, 10-15% posts by people I don't follow, it's not in chronological order (or any sense of order for that matter), and regardless of whether I was on there yesterday or 2 months ago, it'll show me about 40 posts before saying "You're all caught up from the past 3 days!" and then refuse to show me any more.

    I guess this is why I'm here on Lemmy and went crawling back to Tumblr, one of the last vestiges of the old internet. At this point, I'd rather watch a platform die than become marketable to advertisers and shareholders.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Yes the random feed filled with ads unrelated post suggestions and limited to three days is the main issue. i use an Instagram mod but they didn't manage yet to replace the main feed with the friend only feed you can get by clicking on the Instagram button

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I mean except for collecting all possible data and psychological profiling of users to serve them targeted ads, it’s a decent enough platform.

    It's not. Instagram is popular the way it is because "It’s going to be a lot harder to pull off massive protests" there.

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  • [+] -6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Don't worry that'll change, they haven't owned it for that long yet.

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