I'm really tired of reading rants and opinions on Medium.
In any case it sounds like if there's a huge drop-off of users Instagram can very easily address the issue by setting a sort by option in the settings.
Facebook is ruining Instagram
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#32yyaawwn people also thought Facebook was ruined when they stopped only accepting edu emails
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#33This type of stuff makes me wonder when humanity will treat ads just like we treat cigarettes today.
When ads start killing 30% of the people who look at them.
When an "infection" from an ad can lead to malware, trojans, ransomware, etc...
At what point does the monetary value of the damages caused by "advertising" surpass the amount of damages caused by cigs?
Will that amount of damage ever be more than lung cancer and lost lives? Who knows... but ads aren't just annoying. They are dangerous.
Just ask the hospitals that have had to run at limited capacity due to infections. (that infection was due to a tainted email... but it could have easily been from a drive-by-ad-malware... ala 30-after-30 malware: http://www.engadget.com/2016/01/08/you-say-advertising-i-say... ). And it's only a matter of time until one infection causes a death...
Then expand that to our increasingly connected cars and houses...
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#34I'm really tired of reading rants and opinions on Medium. In any case it sounds like if there's a huge drop-off of users Instagram can very easily address the issue by setting a sort by option in the settings.
tired of it too . just another platform for tumrblr people who are grownup to channel their narcissism. And most of the articles are of low quality, with unnecessarily large font and stupid pictures that makes me feel like I'm in 5th grade again.
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#35This post informed me that Instagram has fixed the problem that made me hate it and never want to open it (irrelevant/boring photos cluttering my timeline). The most prolific posters, often also with the lowest-quality content, would drown out all the more thoughtful posters. Time to try Instagram again!
unfollow the people who prolifically post low quality content. problem solved.
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#37So the point of the post is "Now the timeline order has changed. It's not a timeline anymore, but it's a filtered and reordered feed. I feel very sad about that and I want to explain you why." The why in that is "Now Instagram aims to be the brother of Facebook: a time sucking machine that has to steal the highest amount of my time to maximise the exposure of his ads. Now it’s too hard for me follow what’s happening…
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#38Just stop using the app; lots of people I know have already stopped using Facebook. I don't even have it installed on my phone anymore.
At least on iPhone, the web app is less resource-hoggy and just as featureful. Most of the social events I go to are now typically organized via Facebook; the non-FB people require a separate email which is an extra step that is not taken 100% of the time.
>an extra step that is not taken 100% of the time.
IMO, that's often a feature not a bug.
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#39It's not filtered.
It's reordered but not filtered.
If you keep scrolling you will see everything posted that you haven't seen since the last time you checked.
It's not even bad.
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#40This type of stuff makes me wonder when humanity will treat ads just like we treat cigarettes today.
That is a difficult problem to solve. How do you differentiate between genuine (even if self-interested) self expression and 'advertisement'? If I think I make really muffins and I want everyone to know is that advertisement and is it a bad thing? Of course, I love my muffins so much that I want everyone to have them so I'm going to have to start charging, because the best way to get as many people to try them is to…
IMO, simply flat out preventing for profit companies from talking with non customers is probably worth it. Sure, you might end up with some edge cases, but in the end customers pay for advertising and it's often zero or even negative sum.
The edge case is of course. Disease X now has a treatment!
But IMO, if it's important people are going to find out other ways.