Instagram Tests Recommendations Reset for Fresh Start

[MacRumors]

Instagram parent company Meta today said that it is testing a new tool that's designed to allow users to reset their content recommendations for "a fresh start." Using the reset tool removes prior data that's used to power Explore, Reels, and Feed recommendations.

Recommendations will start to personalize over time, providing content recommendations based on the content and accounts that users interact with. Using the reset option will provide users with an option to review the accounts they're following to unfollow content they no longer want to see, and review ad topics.

The tool is designed for teen users, but Instagram is planning to make it available to all users following the test period. The feature will roll out globally "soon."

Article Link: Instagram Tests Recommendations Reset for Fresh Start

 

[andrewxgx]

maybe just ban reposters stealing content and show actual users posts instead of the influcencer advertisement junk?

 

[Havalo]

This ‘feature’ should be a standard tool on all social media platforms.

 

[Entilzha]

Don’t need a fresh start if you don’t use Instagram!

 

[0186279]

Don’t need a fresh start if you don’t use Instagram!
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Seriously. Hard to imagine people still wanting to spend their time on these platforms.

 

[contacos]

I would love to be able to nuke all the likes or comments I have left after a set period as well. Doing it one by one is time consuming and doesn't even work, because it eventually just gives you errors about not being able to delete

 

[TJ82]

Seriously. Hard to imagine people still wanting to spend their time on these platforms.

Yet here you are for your cheap dopamine hit.

 

[PowerButton]

How about no recommendations, just posts from people you follow 🤷‍♂️.
Tired of the nonstop ads (recommendations) and not seeing people I follow.

 

[0186279]

Yet here you are for your cheap dopamine hit.

Are traditional websites and message boards, which I’ve been visiting since the 1990’s, equivalent to you? I’ve been reading Macrumors since 2006 for news and, early on, a lot of learning and conversations here on the forums. There’s no algorithm here and nothing to constantly refresh.

That being said, I am indeed slowly moving away from internet usage as much as possible, leaving it for a few sites to check in with on occasion, email, and necessary life tasks. Social media was the first to go some time ago.

 

[phenste]

I would love to be able to nuke all the likes or comments I have left after a set period as well. Doing it one by one is time consuming and doesn't even work, because it eventually just gives you errors about not being able to delete

redact.dev is fantastic but also shows the absolute dire need for this across all social media

 

[flexwithmarius]

TikTok has this already, was a joy to use after the election 😂

 

[uacd]

These Meta-pwned m…ers gave me an IP ban. Just because I often create accounts and then delete them and flee. No, not because I am farming bots but because I often burn out on all these socials. I dunno what to do, I needed an account to test different smartphones quality🤣

They should definitely build onto that idea of fresh start so that users can clear the page conpletely in one click: delete all followers, follows, connections, likes, content etc so that no one will actually notice (since you can change usernames too). Maybe they can add “exceptions list” to manually choose who or what to keep

 

[iZac]

How about no recommendations, just posts from people you follow 🤷‍♂️.
Tired of the nonstop ads (recommendations) and not seeing people I follow.

A strictly reverse chronological list of all the things friends have posted? What a concept!

 

[uacd]

Yet here you are for your cheap dopamine hit.

Pinterest has me covered. Every time I click the app, I have all the pictures I want to see, as if they were secretly stealing and reading what I am thinking about

 

[newyorksole]

I get recommended a lot of male athletes, bodybuilders, trainers etc… oh and food.

I don’t mind it 😎. nice option tho!

 

[CarAnalogy]

Are traditional websites and message boards, which I’ve been visiting since the 1990’s, equivalent to you? I’ve been reading Macrumors since 2006 for news and, early on, a lot of learning and conversations here on the forums. There’s no algorithm here and nothing to constantly refresh.

That being said, I am indeed slowly moving away from internet usage as much as possible, leaving it for a few sites to check in with on occasion, email, and necessary life tasks. Social media was the first to go some time ago.

(Not the person you're replying to)

Message boards were and are better.

However, I don't remember message boards in my day having likes and such. That little notification bell is the dopamine hit. If you turned that off, good for you.

As for me, I'm funky not a junkie but I know where to get it.

 

[Black.Infinity]

I had to choose “Not Interested” for some accounts. I’ve been wishing for something like this.

 

[Reason077]

I think I need this feature for X/Twitter. Every time I go there I seem to get bombarded with weird right-wing/racist/anti-immigration stuff that I'm pretty sure I've never been into.

 

[NufSaid]

FINALLY. My Instagram gets all out of whack. I see Leftists-fascists and soccer.

#NotInterested

 

[DocMultimedia]

I think I need this feature for X/Twitter. Every time I go there I seem to get bombarded with weird right-wing/racist/anti-immigration stuff that I'm pretty sure I've never been into.

I miss the old Twitter. No ads, no suggestions, no nothing other than people you followed. Since then (and for that matter BBS) it is all a big mess. I really miss the early 90s of the web when just us physicists were enjoying it for the extreme simplicity of presenting l learning about other research.

The old days. 🤓

 

[ThirteenXIII]

best not to use these platforms, theyre all ad networks and time suckers. besides I can't even select multiple people to unfollow, going one by one is annoying for a tech platform. unless thats part of the jig

 

[WilliApple]

YouTube I need this for my YouTube shorts feed.
For some reason, my algorithm is filled with literal brain rot.

 

[svish]

This might be useful in certain circumstances.

 

[Morgenland]

This might be useful in certain circumstances.

Agree.... in certain circumstances

 

[scorpio vega]

Seriously. Hard to imagine people still wanting to spend their time on these platforms.

Same reason you’re here posting on social media. A forum is social media. The original social media.

Message boards were and are bette

Nope.

Message boards are largely echo chambers and are incredibly archaic and slow at news.

I can log on Facebook and find out about something local happening down the street from a friend of mine and know to avoid that road or there is a shooter in the area. This actually happened. I didn’t know until I got on Facebook police were looking for an armed shooter.

I get on Reddit and I instantly know world news. Or celebrity news. Sports news.
Tech news. Etc etc. I am also able to converse with fans of things I like. I can also debate with others as well.

Facebook I can stay up to date with people I don’t text or call daily but I can see how they are doing without needing to bother them. An old classmate just had her first kid. That’s been a joy reading her experience.

Forums are good for centralized communication and learning but that’s all. And once that central topic is not irrelevant they die. Hence why most large forums are a shadow of themselves and many others are closed down.