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Re: The apps that Americans search to “delete” the most

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Post by KaiserPro »

Instagram is a reflection of the stuff you click on. So long as you take that to heart, then you'll do fine.

Make sure you flat out reject and ban anything you don't like (either use the ... or long press and say "I don't like this").

Make sure you turn off feed suggestions (they are the ones with the x in the top right) That'll stop Instagram injecting targeted, and stuff some poor IC has been forced to cram into your feed to suit some metric. Then you'll have a feed that shows you updates from people you follow, then when you get to the end suggested posts.

The explore tab has a different persona to who you follow. So you can be obsessivly following knit crafters in your feed, but your explore tab could be filled with something entirely orthogonal. You will get inclusions from explore into your main feed suggestions, but you can reject them by either scrolling over them quickly (not that effective) or long press -> I don't like.

multiple accounts for different interests is also a good idea.

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Post by yamazakiwi »

tristor wrote: post #43

My wife convinced me to install Instagram so she could send me videos of stuff. My experience was that at first it was annoying, then I found out I could follow some cool hobbyist folks working on cars, old computer systems, electronics, and of course all the mechanical keyboard content, as well as travel (I'm an extensive world traveler and used to post travel content on Instagram over 5 years ago) and I got sucked…

>The thing is, I'm pretty sure Instagram is "better" (in the sense of less bad) than TikTok and many other apps that are more popular.

Users judge these apps based on different criteria and at different stages of use. On Instagram I found someone I wanted to follow but had to be approved to follow their content, I immediately uninstalled the app.

I get tons of excellent content on TikTok about tech, science, programming because I've "shaped" my algorithm well. I find people judge these platforms, as I have with instagram, before they have cultivated their best possible platform experience.

TikTok skews younger on average; Instagram skews more egocentric. You can mostly avoid both negatives but it won't be your first experience on these platforms.

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Post by polishdude20 »

donclark wrote: post #60

Where are we headed? What app should we use to share/communicate with others in a group setting without ads or having an option to have our data not to be mined or sold? Is there a HN poll of a range of apps and how many is using each (and maybe a daily/weekly time usage of each)? Some data to review below (*may be biased): Most Popular Apps 2022 (Global) TikTok 672 Instagram 548 Facebook 449 WhatsApp 424 CapCut 357…

Discord? Seems to work well for my group of friends of real people I know and have a relationship with.

Re: The apps that Americans search to “delete” the most

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Post by legitster »

nlh wrote: post #41

A personal anecdote: I use Instagram for my hobby/business (coin & paper money collecting & dealing). I have mercilessly curated my feed to be ONLY people who post content purely related to the numismatic world. No real-life friends, no travel posts from random semi-friends, no selfies, none of that garbage. If someone starts posting it, I unfollow them. And for the ads -- I click on ads related to cat toys and pet f…

I actually had a similar nicely curated Facebook around my personal interests.

Then Facebook decided to throw that all out the window and now I have a wall of pure garbage. Just random low quality memes and content.

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Post by distrill »

donclark wrote: post #60

Where are we headed? What app should we use to share/communicate with others in a group setting without ads or having an option to have our data not to be mined or sold? Is there a HN poll of a range of apps and how many is using each (and maybe a daily/weekly time usage of each)? Some data to review below (*may be biased): Most Popular Apps 2022 (Global) TikTok 672 Instagram 548 Facebook 449 WhatsApp 424 CapCut 357…

as soon as it becomes popular there will be outcry to leave whatever you land on.

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Post by neura »

notShabu wrote: post #17

Instagram democratizes the mental illness that used to only affect child stars and the hollywood famous. Who people think we are is who we are because identity is a reflection, not an actual thing in reality (similar to colors not existing in reality). Having access to a extra mirrors at first creates a sense of control. You know your mom and dad won't give you a "non-distorted" reflection so the reflection from stra…

"Instagram democratizes the mental illness that used to only affect child stars and the hollywood famous."

Wow. I have problems with Instragram, but I've never tried to sum it up into a single statement and while this is rather specific and may not include all the problems I _feel_ are there, it really does bring home the main issue, for me. A little snark in there about democratizing, as some people will always put a positive spin on such things, which I feel is totally appropriate here.

Just... The comment could have stopped right there and been as or more impactful (for me). Thanks. :)

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Post by bmarquez »

ec_gv wrote: post #52

I made an Instagram account recently and within 10 minutes they banned my account for being suspicious, asking for a mobile number. I gave them my number and then the account got banned again for the same reason. I didn't post anything or do anything suspicious, is this common?

This has happened to me, except I was banned instantly upon creation and they wanted a mobile number AND a selfie. Which I refuse to give them and ended up deleting Instagram.

I suspect my IP address was suspicious to the algorithm, but it's a mobile app on a mobile network so I'm not sure why it's so strict.

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Post by yamazakiwi »

lastLinkedList wrote: post #57
tristor wrote: post #43

My wife convinced me to install Instagram so she could send me videos of stuff. My experience was that at first it was annoying, then I found out I could follow some cool hobbyist folks working on cars, old computer systems, electronics, and of course all the mechanical keyboard content, as well as travel (I'm an extensive world traveler and used to post travel content on Instagram over 5 years ago) and I got sucked…

The thing I dislike the most about Instagram is it seems like at some point it will be like "I'm done showing you content from your feed, here is generically popular stuff". There's a divider and a little message, but if I'm casually scrolling I might miss it and I'm on my timeline, if I wanted to be on Discover I'd be on Discover.

When TikTok runs out of relevant content and starts showing me generic/popular stuff; I say aloud "Ope, I'm out of tiktoks".

These days I don't check TikTok every day or I hit the normie soft cap after 5 minutes. My friends rely on me to be the "TikTok" guy since none of them have it installed for various reasons, so I "save them up" by waiting to view my fyp for longer periods of time.

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