Instagram is the new Tumblr
Instagram Is Over
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Re: Instagram Is Over
#102I am surprised people expect these apps to remain popular for a long time. The internet has changed so much. I've watched social media apps come and go every few years and I personally think they are all short lived trends with maybe a few exceptions. They capture a young market first, who provide the value (photos, videos, memes) and then older generations start joining after the young market is captured. Then after…
I'd actually keep using social apps more if they stayed closer to their original versions. My Facebook feed turned from updates from my friends and family to garbage filled with politics, ads, suggested pages, and I stopped using it. My Instagram feed turned from photos of my family and friends to garbage: again ads, recommended pages, later videos. Eventually I deleted it. Twitter was close to that when they introdu…
What you're saying is interesting. I think part of that is the tension between older and younger generations which is why I don't think these things last.
Reddit is kind of a notable standout. Maybe that and Twitter's features are what guarantees a sustained viewership. I don't know, this is all kind of new.
At least for photo and video sharing sites, it seems like these tend to be trendy and have a population boom and bust cycle. But then again I don't want to speak authoritatively. But looking at FB it reported it's first decline in daily visits this year and the decline among teens and younger generations is even more pronounced. Certainly looks like a population peak.
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#103On the topic of social media in decline, TikTok also appears to have peaked in content already. Following people isn't that interesting since most content creators that hit it big are One Hit Wonders. After they hit that big growth spike, they either follow the herd with the latest dance or trend, or they keep doing the same thing that made em famous with slight variations. How long can you milk the same dance routin…
It is remarkable how hard it is for a business to simply last a decade. To do it at the scale of the incumbent apps is astounding to me. While TikTok is growing quickly, we still don’t know its long term potential, how ‘sticky’ it is. I’d predict it has a trajectory more like Twitter and less like Snapchat. But it could well become a YouTube. All we can do is wait and find out.
It's almost like these businesses don't actually provide any value (the users do, but the users aren't motivated to provide value, just motivated to drive engagement)
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
This comment is imperceptible from a parody of a hacker news comment.
I think it’s a copypasta but I can’t quite recall.
You are mistaken. If there's someone on the internet that agrees with me, then I'm surprised! I composed it myself, and I didn't refer to other sources.
If I quote someone else here, I put it in quotes.
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#105"To scroll through Instagram today is to parse a series of sponsored posts from brands, recommended Reels from people you don’t follow, and the occasional picture from a friend that’s finally surfaced after being posted several days ago. It’s not what it used to be." That seems to be how social media services die. Too many ads, fewer users, revenue drop, more ads to boost revenue, still fewer users, irrelevance. This…
When the accountants make the decisions, the company must die.
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#106the login wall is what killed it for me. try this link in a private window:
https://instagram.com/p/ClCFeRSjOXo
if you hit refresh 5 times, even slowly, you get blocked until you login. I shouldn't have to login just to view a post.
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#107"To scroll through Instagram today is to parse a series of sponsored posts from brands, recommended Reels from people you don’t follow, and the occasional picture from a friend that’s finally surfaced after being posted several days ago. It’s not what it used to be." That seems to be how social media services die. Too many ads, fewer users, revenue drop, more ads to boost revenue, still fewer users, irrelevance. This…
This isn't my experience with Instagram at all. I only follow people I know personally, check in once or twice a day and see posts and stories from them and really nothing else. No sponsored posts, no reels, etc. Maybe some ads. I don't use the discover page and stop scrolling my feed once I get through all the new posts so maybe that's it.
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#108I think it's more accurate to say The Atlantic is over before Instagram is.
We've been using Instagram more than any of the other social networks. Not making a TikTok account. YouTube lost me forever with their invasive ad push. Facebook lost me with its over the top moderation and irrelevant & useless ads. My Twitter account was suspended for a SNL quote.
Instagram currently has relevant and generally well done ads, if anything. The videos are also captivating and addictive and currently not littered with ads. I think that if they put ads in the Reels, they'd drive away a lot of traffic. Right now you almost don't notice some of the ads, and the ones you do notice are generally well done. That's a big difference right there, in my opinion.
Instagram has a lot of fun educational content & accounts. TikTok seems to lack that - it's a pool of misinformation more than education in my experience.
Definitely going to disagree with The Atlantic here.
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
Jibe?
Jibe (verb): change course by swinging a fore-and-aft sail across a following wind. (noun): an act or instance of jibing. GP believes that the Atlantic article constitutes an instance of changing course by swinging a sail across a following wind, presumably metaphorically.
Check their username.
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#110> Casey Lewis, a youth-culture consultant who writes the youth-culture newsletter After School, told me over email. “They don’t want to be on it, but they feel it’s weird if they’re not.
A "youth-culture consultant" trying to predict the future? How scientific
Since this whole article is just one big hot take, here's another hot take: eponymous social media as a whole is on the way out. The only stuff anyone can put on eponymous social media is personal brand stuff (think LinkedIn), never anything actually genuine
It's impossible for people to have real engagements under eponymous social media because anything they can say could be turned against them
IG is predominantly just marketing, whether it's people showing off (like LinkedIn), pages trying to build a following with e.g. pet videos so they can make money from ads, annoying influencer "content", or actual overt ads