So what does the new generation use these days if not instagram?
TikTok
Instagram Is Over
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Reddit always had a hive mind, it's just the hive mind no longer agrees with you so you think it's irrelevant? Nope, frankly given how long reddit's been around and how it continues to gain in popularity I expect it will outlive everything on that list except for youtube. It's the webs default forum and there will always be a demand for a forum on the web.
It's not that reddits users agree or disagree with me it's that [removed by Reddit]
99.99% of that is drunk/clueless people asking for contacts for drugs, and spam. at least that's my experience based on a subreddit with 45K users.
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I feel like there’s a natural adoption curve to social media: 1. The growing social media platform balances the needs of two user groups: the consumer’s need for fresh content and the neophyte producer’s need for a slowly ramping trickle of validation. This is possible because the people don’t know how to produce content in the new format yet. 2. The mature social media platform has picked winners. We know who the su…
Some social media are like that, others are not. When I read “It’s that I don’t see my actual friend’s posts and they don’t see mine.” I thought that my friends do see my posts and viceversa because we use channels on WhatsApp and Telegram. If all I want is keeping in touch with friends, why should I use media like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok?
The original idea is that you can share this same photo to all your friends and family at once. That’s why it’s superior to 1:1 messaging apps.
The problem is you start following strangers which causes the app to transforms itself to promote strangers over friends and family to meet monthly usage goals. It’s a viscous cycle.
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#214I wonder if there’s a market for small app, limited in scope, knock off of the original Instagram. $1/month.
Pixelfed is the droid you're looking for. You can find a server to join at https://pixelfed.org and then support the project via Patreon for $1/month (or more).
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#215Next time you're on a bus, or other public area, peek at what people are doing on their phones. I'd bet it will be Facebook or Instagram like 99% of the time. Maybe WhatsApp outside of the US, and possibly Youtube. These are the apps people are on almost all the time. They have absolutely massive user bases and are integral parts of most adult humans' lives. The idea these apps are "dying" is out of touch with reality.
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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 a…
Reddit tried to kill itself with the new ad optimized UI but saved itself by continuing to let users use the old UI.
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So, while I 100% agree with the original premise--that Instagram is filled with ads and content farms, with relatively few "real users" to be found--this specific complaint is actually "a you thing": Instagram's feed algorithm ranks content in ways that seems to give the wrong players power (such as by giving more weight to people who merely steal and aggregate content than the ones who produce it), but it isn't enti…
My friend - apologies for your experience. In my experience, you can clean up your feed of unwanted content pretty quickly. Just go to discover and long tap > "Not Interested" on the stuff that's of the genre you want to filter out of your life. I do this every couple months with IG babes & thot accounts to keep my feed free of sexual imagery. Works a charm.
Wow I did not know this exists.
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#218I don't know if IG is dead, but that Reels nonsense was an absolute fiasco. They kept showing me reels that were nonsensical and were only designed to lead engagement stats from questions of "what is the person trying to do here". Not to mention, the comments on many of these useless vids were always in Turkish. I don't speak Turkish, I've never been to Turkey, yet comments on videos were always in Turkish.
I clicked on some sort of Turkish meat sandwich video once and now get at least a handful of videos showing the same sandwich being made a week.
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I take that back the "lazy" comment - my mistake. In my defense, I haven't read those articles and came up with these ideas on my own. Agreed re broadcast model - that's an important distinction too vs the classic follower model. This is why, despite my best efforts, I still see content from strangers on my twitter feed. They know it drives engagement. > People, both influencers and users, will get burned out eventua…
> I got married this past year. In the lead up to that, there were tons of wedding planning videos. Now I get served a lot of married couple w/no kids content. That'll probably keep changing as I move through life. This is an interesting observation. You are arguing that your taste for content will change preventing you from getting tired of the product. My argument is more along the lines of the medium. People get b…
That's possible - video is definitely more enticing than photos and there's data out there to back that up among the general population. Perhaps people will get bored of videos one day - we'll see.
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This just reminds me of music in the 50s/60s and radio (without the payola) Some bands were one hit wonders, but some were able to transition to a career, usually help behind them - writers, producers, and everything else from the record label. Chubby Checker always makes me laugh with the song Let’s Twist Again. Something similar happened with Youtube, I think. Especially with media for kids. Popular channels turned…
> Chubby Checker always makes me laugh with the song Let’s Twist Again. Can you explain the joke? I don't get it.
The Twist was his first big hit.
Let’s Twist Again came out a year later. The entire song is referring to the phenomenon of The Twist.
“Let’s twist again, like we did last summer”
Also, it was a number one hit in some countries.