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

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Post by ncpa-cpl »

Swizec wrote: post #50
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…

> PS: Stay AWAY from the "Explore" tab. That is an endless dopamine well of misery. I have a 6 figure instagram id and have never opened the explore tab. But I also stopped using instagram when I realized the ads are more interesting than the people in my feed. Maybe early instagram folk just aren’t the target market anymore. Sometimes I miss my quirky candid real life photography app. edit: to clarify for the downvo…

> Sometimes I miss my quirky candid real life photography app.

I miss the same too. BeReal is has the closest experience for candid photography. Unfortunately is not that widely used in my group

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Post by notmindthegap »

VCs with no personal skin in the game have funded what is essentially addiction engineering. It’s wild that the industry does not seem to have the awareness to understand or care about this. People are getting paid fat salaries to figure out how to covertly manipulate users into abdicating their attention and time to wholly isolated, disconnected, and malnourishing behaviors.

Now the techies are concerned with the mental health crisis.

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

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Post by gedy »

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…

> Stay AWAY from the "Explore" tab. That is an endless dopamine well of misery.

I actually preferred that, as until recently there were no ads in the posts you saw (top level of course).

I made a point to not like or comment on anything, and seemed a decent diversion for a few minutes.

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

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Post by anthomtb »

cmh89 wrote: post #35
anthomtb wrote: post #24

I set a 15 minute daily limit on Instagram. I also have my phone setup to block all non-essential apps between 7:00AM and 6:00PM on the weekdays, and I am not usually hitting my 15 Insta-minutes on those days. I could probably reduce that to 10 and still catch up on anything from friends and family. But the extra 5 minutes is just enough time to enjoy some interesting content from the hobby-influencers I follow, yet…

Can you recommend that app to block non-essential apps? I reflexively open stuff on my phone

I use the Screen Time feature built into iOS. It looks like Android has similar capabilities:

iOS: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208982#:~:text=Go%20to%20S....

Android: https://support.google.com/android/answer/9346420?hl=en#zipp...

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

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Post by ncpa-cpl »

loeg wrote: post #14
boh wrote: post #10

My vote is for LinkedIn. Who actually likes using that thing?

Possibly post-Musk Twitter. Half or more of the people I read left the platform and the app keeps getting worse.

> Possibly post-Musk Twitter.

I don't have an active twitter account, so one of the things I like from post-Musk Twitter is that it no longer requires me to login for reading tweets or for searching.

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Post by tantalor »

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…

Congrats you invented a worse version of Google Plus.

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Post by impalallama »

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 enshittafication of TikTok is just starting. Right now they are still doing their best to provide a quality service rather than extract value. Instagram is about a decade into getting steadily worse, more addicting, and more unhealthy.

So IMHO no not yet, but it will get there eventually.

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Post by naillo »

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 appreciate mercilessly curating your feed. But man even having to do that is such a huge waste of time and life energy.

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Post by deafpolygon »

cronix wrote: post #32
holler wrote: post #22

Me: Deletes instagram. Instagram: Your account will be deleted in 30 days. Me: ... Me: Login on day 29 Instagram: Welcome back.

It was the same when I deleted all FB properties 3 years ago, except I never went back.

It's probably still there.
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