No they won’t. The user base wanting pictures is still there. Meta just wants all the profits in the social media space, so they clone everything. The irony is all these competitors develop new ideas to differentiate themselves because they can’t compete against Facebook/Instagram on their strengths, only to see Meta abandon those strengths to get rid of differentiation. I hope a new photo sharing network disrupts them.
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We have the means to convince everyone else to switch to a different photo sharing social network? Or we have the means to switch to a different one that no one uses? Individuals don’t have the means to solve the problem. Instagram is still better than nothing. Which is effectively the only alternative we can choose.
I gave up on Instagram when every time I opened the app some random video started screaming at me. I just deleted the app and never looked back. Life is better that way.
Tap the logo at the top and choose "following". You *should* get a chronological feed of just the accounts you follow. Still full of ads, but it's better than the 95% suggested garbage that you get otherwise.
If only that feature had rolled out to my account… is selecting that permanent or till you close the app?
The irony is blistering in this comment. IG is a mirror image of its users: desperate for attention and to stay relevant; following every trend and trying to make money off literally anything besides what’s sustainable. And to top it off they whine that their hands are tied. Nope. They did it to themselves and now they’re stuck without a clue as to what the brand really represents. But that’s what happens when you sell yourself out to trends and popularity….broke and miserable. I don’t feel sorry for them. I do feel for the OG photographers and creators who rely on posting photos to market their work. They’re pretty much screwed.
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I created a ticket to get it pushed back to the old version. Hoping I can get away from it. I'm not sure what research they are getting from me other than the fact I'm using the app considerably less now.
This is how I felt about glass too, it also has a subscription based model which the majority won't go for anyway, in which one would think "oh it is for the professionals", but unless it really takes off in the professional world like a photography version of LinkedIn then I have a hard time seeing Glass really be the next Instagram for photos.
It's unbelievable how much Meta's platforms have changed for the worst.
I know that this post is about Instagram but I'll talk about Facebook, because they only have one strategy: get revenue. They absolutely don't give a damn about your experience, what you like, what you enjoy to watch, or the connexions you can make with other artists. The only thing they want is to push the maximum amount of whatever bullcrap the young people like, to get them glued to the app and show them the highest amount of ads. Period.
They lost all the shame they could have. And they don't even try to hide it.
One of the most hatable examples of this is the "interests" in Facebook. There's a list of topics you theoretically "showed interest into". That list contains absolutely every imaginable term existing in every imaginable dictionary. It can be "food", or "Mercedes CLK", or "Dubai", or "girls", or whatever. EVERYTHING. EVERY SINGLE WORD is there. You didn't signed for anything (I know, it's a free service, the user's agreement changes everyday and we don't read it, bla bla bla), but they ASSUME you have an interest for that crap.
That's one of the mechanisms they have to push ads to you.
A while ago you could scroll into that list and show no interest in whatever crap, just unsubscribing the term.
But where they lost all the shame is that now you can't even unsubscribe/remove those points of interest. If you don't like one, the option now is "show less". LESS! Which means they can still push that crap into our feed.
Bottom line: there's an infinite list of crap Facebook just assume you have interest in, which is a lie, and they impose that on us. There's absolutely no way to just unsubscribe for good from topics we don't like.
That's absolutely disgusting.
Meta just became a group were they push things to you, they choose what you are supposed to see and like, and you have zero control over that.
And the eternal excuse behind all this is: when something is free, you're the product. While this is true, they lost all the shame, and got way beyond all decency boundaries. Everything is valid. They don't hide. Everything is for profit.
Unfortunately Facebook is the only way I have to connect with worldwide friends and family; and Instagram is also the only way I have to share photos with them. But everyday that passes I want to delete all that crap more and more.
I know that this post is about Instagram but I'll talk about Facebook, because they only have one strategy: get revenue. They absolutely don't give a damn about your experience, what you like, what you enjoy to watch, or the connexions you can make with other artists. The only thing they want is to push the maximum amount of whatever bullcrap the young people like, to get them glued to the app and show them the highest amount of ads. Period.
They lost all the shame they could have. And they don't even try to hide it.
One of the most hatable examples of this is the "interests" in Facebook. There's a list of topics you theoretically "showed interest into". That list contains absolutely every imaginable term existing in every imaginable dictionary. It can be "food", or "Mercedes CLK", or "Dubai", or "girls", or whatever. EVERYTHING. EVERY SINGLE WORD is there. You didn't signed for anything (I know, it's a free service, the user's agreement changes everyday and we don't read it, bla bla bla), but they ASSUME you have an interest for that crap.
That's one of the mechanisms they have to push ads to you.
A while ago you could scroll into that list and show no interest in whatever crap, just unsubscribing the term.
But where they lost all the shame is that now you can't even unsubscribe/remove those points of interest. If you don't like one, the option now is "show less". LESS! Which means they can still push that crap into our feed.
Bottom line: there's an infinite list of crap Facebook just assume you have interest in, which is a lie, and they impose that on us. There's absolutely no way to just unsubscribe for good from topics we don't like.
That's absolutely disgusting.
Meta just became a group were they push things to you, they choose what you are supposed to see and like, and you have zero control over that.
And the eternal excuse behind all this is: when something is free, you're the product. While this is true, they lost all the shame, and got way beyond all decency boundaries. Everything is valid. They don't hide. Everything is for profit.
Unfortunately Facebook is the only way I have to connect with worldwide friends and family; and Instagram is also the only way I have to share photos with them. But everyday that passes I want to delete all that crap more and more.
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It's just a view. Every time you leave the app it reverts to the default view, which is the ads, suggested crap, recommended non sense bowl of salad.
An interesting way to do it would be to adopt a free model for "regular" people and make it a subscription based model when you want to become a "little more pro" and post more than the average people, giving unlimited posts or premium features or something like that.
I wouldn't mind paying a little fee, because I am a semi-pro photographer, if I knew that all my friends and family who just want to "enjoy" photos could access it for free and even post stuff once in a while.
Flickr has a similar model, where the Pro accounts have unlimited access and premium features, and free accounts are limited to 1000 public photos (last time I checked). The problem is that Flickr lost it's popularity years ago as they weren't able to adopt the social "hype" of mobile platforms early enough.
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No...not all the users are trying to be relevant. As a photographer, I joined IG in its infancy as a way of sharing my day with others who were friends or fellow photographers. Those same photographers now crave a place for connection and friendship....we are not trying to be influencers, and are disappointed that influencers have ruined the place we once called home. Well, Meta ruined it first, but it's all the same now.
I'm also on Glass and decided to renew my subscription, which I originally was not going to do. But it's so clean and pretty, and I'd much rather pay $30 a year for that than to be bombarded out of my skull by reels and sounds and visual clutter.
I actually support this entirely. Of course you can still post photos on there. But I like the expanded video functionality. It has let me turn my profile into more of a multimedia life blog for friends and family, something I wouldn't want to do on YouTube because that's just too public.
Flickr is still around if you're hellbound on keeping things in a photo-only mode. And honestly, this could all be done more simply if Apple had/would make photo streams more accessible.
Flickr is still around if you're hellbound on keeping things in a photo-only mode. And honestly, this could all be done more simply if Apple had/would make photo streams more accessible.
I’m done with instagram. It’s just people reposting crap from TikTok and three-quarter shots of the one good side of peoples’ faces or asses completely obscuring the interesting thing behind them.
Some of my friends are on Instagram, so I post photos there sometimes. But one thing I have found is that the Instagram app for the iPhone really really sucks. So… Hello?🍸🙀🍸😹
Deactivated both my instagram and Facebook 2 months ago. It’s literally so cleansing 💆♂️
I hate to break it to you, but that's literally every company.
Of course it is, but you can still get revenue and try to offer a good experience to the user. For example: the current Apple. A trillion dollar company who still makes products enjoyable to the users.
Meta's companies are just getting more and more empty, confusing, boring, and less useful; and at the same time more and more greedy.
I deleted my FB years ago and kept Instagram because FB/Meta hadn't completely trashed it yet. I don't have a problem if people want to post videos. In fact, I think it's great. But I ONLY want to see the people or businesses I follow, not a bunch of random crap. What Insta is giving me is random crap, and by doing that, they're basically pushing me out the door. They're literally going to lose all their users trying to get more users.
I should really thank them. Insta is the only Meta product I use, and pretty soon I'll be rid of them completely.
I should really thank them. Insta is the only Meta product I use, and pretty soon I'll be rid of them completely.
It’s too bad. I canceled my Instagram account as soon as I saw this article. It was wonderful when all you saw were photos from the people that you followed. Nice intimate setting. Not anymore. I choose not to participate.
I know, it's a complete mess. I guess less instagram is good for any of us, but jeez...
I can’t stand Instagram's desperately TikTok new UI. It doesn’t work for the way I use Instagram. I like TikTok a lot -- for TikTok things
Instagram is such a failure as a social media network. No identity of its own. Just desperately aping the popular one, whatever that is
The reason Instagram is dying is because it doesn’t show people what they want to see. It’s that simple! TikTok’s algorithm is great at showing me what I want to see. Instagram’s algorithm wants to show me things that *other* people have interacted with. That’s not the same as showing something someone wants to see and if people don’t see what they want to see, why would they use the app?
Allowing users to snooze something for up to a month is such a weird thing to do
It’s an admission that users don’t *like* what Instagram is doing, and also a refusal to actually listen to the users
It creates a situation where people are annoyed because they always have to keep snoozing these things they don’t like. This creates an unpleasant experience using the app, which means people will look for alternatives
Instagram is such a failure as a social media network. No identity of its own. Just desperately aping the popular one, whatever that is
The reason Instagram is dying is because it doesn’t show people what they want to see. It’s that simple! TikTok’s algorithm is great at showing me what I want to see. Instagram’s algorithm wants to show me things that *other* people have interacted with. That’s not the same as showing something someone wants to see and if people don’t see what they want to see, why would they use the app?
Allowing users to snooze something for up to a month is such a weird thing to do
It’s an admission that users don’t *like* what Instagram is doing, and also a refusal to actually listen to the users
It creates a situation where people are annoyed because they always have to keep snoozing these things they don’t like. This creates an unpleasant experience using the app, which means people will look for alternatives
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It's difficult for me to complain about something that's:
A - Free to Use.
B - Operated by a company who steals your private information and sells it for more money then you can dream of.
C - Thinks the future is video.
Eventually, people will be burned/burnt out or we'll turn into that Episode of Black Mirror where we start watching content for brownie points.
A - Free to Use.
B - Operated by a company who steals your private information and sells it for more money then you can dream of.
C - Thinks the future is video.
Eventually, people will be burned/burnt out or we'll turn into that Episode of Black Mirror where we start watching content for brownie points.
I stopped using it a while ago because most of what I was seeing was celebs posts from 5 days ago and none of my actual friends from the specific day.
Also Twitter, IG and Reddit all do those “posts you may like” in your feed and it’s terrible. Twitter is probably the worst as it’s Retweets, likes and commented on that ends up in your feed.
Just done with social media.
Also Twitter, IG and Reddit all do those “posts you may like” in your feed and it’s terrible. Twitter is probably the worst as it’s Retweets, likes and commented on that ends up in your feed.
Just done with social media.
