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I don’t understand, are you following random kids you have no interest in seeing?
No, I don’t follow these people. Once I view all the new content from the people I follow, Instagram starts showing me posts from people I’ve never seen before.
This guy should try AliExpress. In fact that's probably where all the stuff advertised on Instagram comes from.
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Presumably using the app? The thing I hate most is if I click on search it starts autoplaying some random thing that has no relevance to my social circles, until I start typing my search query (usually just trying to find a friend or an account I already follow).
I generally assume that installing an app to use a website is voluntarily opting in to a worse experience, so you're probably right. Still, though, maybe a PiHole would be effective?
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Sorry to sound stupid, but I live in the UK and have literally never seen an ad from a church (except maybe on a board outside). What is the purpose of the ad? What is their motivation?
> I live in the UK and have literally never seen an ad from a church To be honest, the UK hardly has a church anyway :-)
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Same. I bought a bunch of stuff from instagram ads (unless they’re easy scams/dropshipping products which you can easily tell). These days I’m looking at modular floor couch (like roche bobois majhong, I recommend checking that if you don’t know about these couches because they look amazing) and I’m now getting a bunch of more affordable alternatives as ads.
I like the fabrics on those mahjongs, and maybe that’s what it’s all about, but is there anything that sets them apart from all the floor cushions you can buy on Etsy and elsewhere? Can also search “majlis”.
https://www.innovations.com.au
Lots of equally hilarious garbage in here. I used to love it when I was young. My grandma would get them delivered in the post.
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> All in all, it feels like Facebook thinks I'm an idiot and treats me accordingly. This is the way of social media algorithms. I suspect it makes sense be cause the majority of users are indeed "idiots", in the sense of doing a poor job managing their subscription feeds and such. I'm sure they have tons of data showing how they improve user retention in aggregate by treating them like idiots. But those of us willing…
When you say that people are doing a "poor job managing their subscription feeds and such", it almost sounds like you think that's possible using Facebook's interface?
At a minimum, you could unfollow people/pages that were too low signal:noise to be worthwhile, and mute the ones that you wanted to follow but not here from. Crude, but easy way to ditch a lot of the noise.
But people didn't really use those basic tools. They just followed... everything... didn't mute the annoying family they were obliged to friend, and complained when their feed sucked.
It's hard for me to imagine Facebook et. al. providing useful controls that people will actually use that doesn't reduce down to "give us some signal and our AI will magically figure out the right thing". And basically that's the extreme version of what they have now.
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Sorry to sound stupid, but I live in the UK and have literally never seen an ad from a church (except maybe on a board outside). What is the purpose of the ad? What is their motivation?
I remember about 15 or 20 years ago when Alpha was new, they were advertising in newspapers and on buses. It seemed weirdly un-British and didn't last long. (The course is still going, I just only see the branding on actual churches now)
Maybe it's just me, but I dislike the whole concept of advertising in places that aren't related to shopping. I go to Instagram to look at my friends' pictures, not to be sold something I don't actually need. If I were to shop, I'd go to a mall, thank you very much. Anyway, at some point Instagram ads (especially the autoplaying video kind, with sound) drove me crazy enough that out came jadx and apktool and I found…
It's definitely just you. Women go on Instagram to see fashion with links to shopping "the look".
- gun modification products
- survival stuff: knives, para cord etc.
- conservative 'mens group' retreats
It's dark.