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

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Post by jcreinhold »

sib wrote: post #59

The "analysis" doesn't seem to have been normalized by number of installs or MAU...

Thanks for this. I was looking for someone to comment on this point.

The list of apps that people most "want to delete" is highly correlated with apps with the list of apps with the most MAUs.

The right thing to look at here is the percentage of users who want to delete the app. Otherwise this table is just telling us that Instagram has more users than other apps—e.g., 1% of 1 billion > 1% of 1 million—which I suspect most people already know.

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Post by thrwaway94028 »

What's equally fascinating from this list is how thoroughly and completely Meta has wasted the opportunity of WhatsApp. Notice how it's one of the most used/downloaded apps and not high in the list for deletes.

I interviewed at WhatsApp post acquisition, but it seemed pretty obvious that the Facebook PMs and leadership that they installed post acquisition had neither the will nor ability to actually develop a strategy and make clear decisions in the absence of data and metrics.

Mark doesn't care of course, because you can't expand an ad network into a product hardened against surveillance. They tried for a while by investing in Messenger as a potential WeChat-like platform, but it was the wrong horse to bet on when WhatsApp already won internationally and iMessage/iPhone was the platform of choice among US teens.

Meta is the new Yahoo. One huge blue/purple legacy app they will continue to milk as it slowly fades, and then just a trail of death and decay in a long list of acquired products. Thank god Signal has come around and is being invested in.

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Post by vanilla_nut »

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…

At some point, wouldn't it be better to build your own RSS bridge for posts from Instagram accounts you want to follow? At least you'd get to exercise some programming skills that way, instead of running around in Meta's dark pattern labyrinths.

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Post by JAlexoid »

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…

> scams/knockoffs

That's the most common issue with MetaZuck - advertisements are riddled with fraud.

Outside of Facebook Local marketplace, they are utterly horrendous.

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Post by JAlexoid »

yamazakiwi wrote: post #70
lastLinkedList wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

TikTok also tells you to stop spending time on TikTok.

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Post by diordiderot »

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.

My Twitter feed got waaaay worse for a few months post acquisition but I'd say it's better than ever in the past two or three months

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Post by chrisgd »

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…

I think that is an insanely insightful comment. It is very scary having an 11 year old and wondering when that day comes when his friends are on social media and he wants to participate. I am skeptical of a lot so don’t fall for get rich scams or ads on these platforms but do enjoy perusing for sometimes too long

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Post by Aaronstotle »

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…

My explore tab has bird photography, cool art, and cycling. Its actually quite pleasant

I actually found some coin videos through my explore page

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Post by yodsanklai »

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…

> However when the mirrors are mass produced and cheap and you have no control over their place in your life,

you have control to not use this application. It's not like you're forced to use it. You can also go there casually to see your friends pictures without thinking too much about it.

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