Live data from Hacker News

Instagram Is Facebook Now

embedded.substack.com

21–30 of 396 posts

Re: Instagram Is Facebook Now

#21
post #12

If you follow any Young People™ you'll notice that they're all using Stories now, which still have ads, but are at least chronological. Posts (the original product) are for "Old People" (28+).

Most people under the age of 30 are using Snapchat

Not the case at all.

Re: Instagram Is Facebook Now

#22
post #12

If you follow any Young People™ you'll notice that they're all using Stories now, which still have ads, but are at least chronological. Posts (the original product) are for "Old People" (28+).

Give it a year or two and I bet there will be unskippable ads between the stories.

Re: Instagram Is Facebook Now

#23
I'm reading a lot of posts here of people who have just decided to drop Instagram. As someone who deleted Facebook only two months ago, and never looked back, I am really hoping this is the beginning of the end for Meta/Facebook/whatever stupid name they call themselves.

Re: Instagram Is Facebook Now

#24
post #12

If you follow any Young People™ you'll notice that they're all using Stories now, which still have ads, but are at least chronological. Posts (the original product) are for "Old People" (28+).

As a Young People™, this is not entirely true.

Stories are only partly chronological. The stories are grouped per user and in these groups they are chronological. However these groups are not chronological.

Secondly, posts are not for old people. Posts serve a different purpose than stories. The barrier to post is a lot higher, and they are definitely not used (anymore) to share that you are going to a restaurant/movie/etc, because stories took over that niche. However something like a (single!) post with (multiple) photos of your last holiday (with at least the first one including you) and some fun caption is still totally done.

Re: Instagram Is Facebook Now

#26
Well I guess there is a market opening for ChronoPic then, a new photosharing platform with comments, tags and likes... In chronological order!

Because if Instagram acts like Facebook, it's ruined.

I had noticed the last few months (and I'm not a heavy user at all), that literally every 4-5 pictures was an advert video. It made me sick to my gut to use it.

What also makes me sick is the amount of people just doomscrolling this thing non stop, they actually don't even stop, the scrolling is like in perpetual movement, and when they like something it's a double tap and instant scroll. What kind of consumption is that?

Re: Instagram Is Facebook Now

#27
post #15
post #12

If you follow any Young People™ you'll notice that they're all using Stories now, which still have ads, but are at least chronological. Posts (the original product) are for "Old People" (28+).

Hell, im a pretty early adopter of instagram along with loads of friends and like 95% of content has become stories. Turns out Snapchat was what most of us wanted but without a purposefully obtuse interface

The fact that they succeeded in spite of a purposefully obtuse interface is a pretty clear validation for the concept.

Re: Instagram Is Facebook Now

#28
I abandoned Instagram few weeks ago since it's absolutely hostile towards its' users. Opened an app, noticed that I got into another god awful AB-test (snapping posts to top of the feed instead of a normal scrolling) and just couldn't force myself to use it.

Re: Instagram Is Facebook Now

#30
If all you care about is messaging and viewing stories of people that you have messaged lately, I would suggest you to look into Threads. It's basically messenger but for instagram and there are no ads when viewing stories.
Post reply on HN