Forward from: levsha
i hate instagram.
i hate instagram because it was an app where you used to check what your friends were up to. you would see their funny pictures with cringy descriptions. that weirdly seductive nature was why you would check the app. it was about feed β you saw posts by people you followed.
with the advent of modern algorithms, it was understandable that Meta had to bring in more personalization. platforms are dying for attention and it was fine. but as they became more hungry, they went as far as to demolish the relationship with who the accounts follow.
i currently have 30 thousand followers but neither my post nor stories will likely get anywhere 10% of that number in view count. because following doesn't really matter much anymore. if you don't engage with stories, posts and reels, it simply doesn't show again.
but the assumption that if you aren't engaging with (by liking, commenting, or sharing) the post of who you follow means you don't want to see it is wrong.
i'll tell you a story. i usually dont have time to read individual posts on my friends' channels on telegram. and i don't expect them to read mine, even though we both follow each other. we often don't even respond in dms. and its fine. we are all busy. but a few hours ago, i got a message from my friend alluding to a post on my channel. he was not responding to my private messages, but even mildly enough, he checked on my channel posts. did he read all of them? no. he probably even skipped 90% of posts. liking and commenting is obviously out of question. yet he still checked β and that's what instagram took away from us - checking who you follow because you don't follow for nothing.
i personally use instagram because it is an incomparable tool for upward mobility. there's not a thing on earth that can help you go up from low-middle income to high income faster than reels. with a single reels you can see unprecedented inflows of traffic to your store. and i think this is one of the primary benefits.
still, i'd much rather prefer to see recommendations in recommendations and not in feed. let me see people i follow and not others.
i hate instagram because it was an app where you used to check what your friends were up to. you would see their funny pictures with cringy descriptions. that weirdly seductive nature was why you would check the app. it was about feed β you saw posts by people you followed.
with the advent of modern algorithms, it was understandable that Meta had to bring in more personalization. platforms are dying for attention and it was fine. but as they became more hungry, they went as far as to demolish the relationship with who the accounts follow.
i currently have 30 thousand followers but neither my post nor stories will likely get anywhere 10% of that number in view count. because following doesn't really matter much anymore. if you don't engage with stories, posts and reels, it simply doesn't show again.
but the assumption that if you aren't engaging with (by liking, commenting, or sharing) the post of who you follow means you don't want to see it is wrong.
i'll tell you a story. i usually dont have time to read individual posts on my friends' channels on telegram. and i don't expect them to read mine, even though we both follow each other. we often don't even respond in dms. and its fine. we are all busy. but a few hours ago, i got a message from my friend alluding to a post on my channel. he was not responding to my private messages, but even mildly enough, he checked on my channel posts. did he read all of them? no. he probably even skipped 90% of posts. liking and commenting is obviously out of question. yet he still checked β and that's what instagram took away from us - checking who you follow because you don't follow for nothing.
i personally use instagram because it is an incomparable tool for upward mobility. there's not a thing on earth that can help you go up from low-middle income to high income faster than reels. with a single reels you can see unprecedented inflows of traffic to your store. and i think this is one of the primary benefits.
still, i'd much rather prefer to see recommendations in recommendations and not in feed. let me see people i follow and not others.