Friends have been bugging me to get Insta and I finally caved.

Damn dawg you live like this?

TikTok is bad enough but Insta is soooo much more shitty advertising, grifters and AI generated BS on Instagram. Maybe it's the algorithm that's worse? I've had insta for a month now and it's still feeding me the worst shit.

Let's just say I was never given manosphere videos on TikTok. Instagram seems to be sending them to me by the boatload. Tons of videos "sponsored" places called "Mandvise" or some shit featuring a grizzled old white dude saying shit like "When a woman says she just wants to be friends what she really means is...." And "Women be acting on fickle emotional whims."

Like dude how many of these videos do I have to report before the algorithm gets the message!?

And don't get me started on people who sell shit on Instagram. What a shitty way to run a business, just sell your shit on an actual website FFS.

  • UlyssesT
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    15 days ago

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  • x87_floatingpoint [he/him, it/its]
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    18 days ago

    Local pro-Palestine students only got an Instagram and no website :((

    If I knew any of them in person, I'd offer to set up a website for them, but I don't (I basically don't know anyone here at all), and their online presence being only Instagram means I can't just contact them, either

  • GeorgeZBush [he/him]
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    18 days ago

    It's trash. I maintain one to keep up the normie facade but I only check it on my laptop. I had to delete the app because it just sucks you in. I waste enough time on screens and it was only making it worse. I can't stand the reels format either.

    • CarsAndComrades [comrade/them]
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      18 days ago

      My new rule for myself is to stop scrolling on any social media when I see something incredibly stupid or cringe. On facebook sometimes it's the first post I see.

    • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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      18 days ago

      I had to delete the app because it just sucks you in.

      It really does, I have my phone set to redirect me to a web homepage of my own making if I open the Instagram app during hours I should be productive. My whole phone is a landmine of stuff I have to do that for tbh.

  • Rojo27 [he/him]
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    18 days ago

    Maybe its because I've been on Insta for a while, but I don't get much AI slop. Advertisements, though? Yes, way too much. I grifters/manosphere stuff once in a while, but its actually not too bad. It still suffers greatly from the same thing that Facebook does, which is that its become less and less about staying in touch with people you actually know and instead shoving ads and content down your throat.

    • CarsAndComrades [comrade/them]
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      18 days ago

      Somehow I've tricked instagram into giving me ads for the most irrelevant products, like this company that sells labels to grocery stores or something:

      Show

      • Łumało [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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        18 days ago

        I'd put this on my laptop, a proper sticker instead of some [insert company/foss project] logo most laptops are filled to the brim with.

        • CarsAndComrades [comrade/them]
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          17 days ago

          I might get some of the "FULLY COOKED" labels and wear them on my shirt when I'm having a bad day.

          A few years ago I got some labels that said "For Rectal Use Only" and stuck them to a bunch of large objects on April Fools' Day. Maybe that's how The Algorithm discovered my fascination with weird labels.

  • afters [none/use name]
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    18 days ago

    tiktok at least feels like people i might have a conversation with in the real world, or make me giggle. instagram is like all those stereotypes about facebook jacked up to the max with an emphasis on vanity and i do not giggle only sigh

  • casskaydee [she/her]
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    18 days ago

    The most miserable people on the planet are in the Instagram comments sections

  • CarsAndComrades [comrade/them]
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    18 days ago

    I'm only on instagram because my co-hosts (and a few other leftist content creators we know) are on there. So most of my feed is leftist memes, anti-genocide memes (until those accounts get banned), car memes, and cat pics. But yeah as soon as the algorithm runs out of that, it starts showing me really dumb facebook level bullshit.

  • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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    18 days ago

    I get a combination of onlyfan models, mtg tips, left leaning politics, and lots of cute animals. Been branching into food and gardening lately. I think it heavily weights videos you share with people you follow and like.

  • Riffraffintheroom [none/use name]
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    18 days ago

    Follow, only animators, musicians and tattoo artists and it becomes tolerable. Except maybe don’t and just use Cara to look at art, because it has stuff built in that keeps art from being scraped for AI

  • sexywheat [none/use name]
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    18 days ago

    Instagram is a platform that only makes sense if you own / use a smartphone. Which, admittedly, is basically everyone in the developed world at this point, but as one of the .0001% of people who don't have one, it makes no god damned sense at all. Like, what the fuck is this even for?

  • CantaloupeAss [comrade/them]
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    18 days ago

    i can't believe u held out this long and then caved lol

    but yeah unfortunately the phone-addicted among us use instagram as like a lifeblood and will make social situations weird without it.... im like just send me a whatsapp plz i do not care about all this shit

  • Mindfury [he/him]
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    18 days ago

    wrong move, bird

    the only good thing to do on instagram is find local drug product accounts and get their telegram details, or bully libs in the comments of betoota advocate posts

  • Gorb [they/them]
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    18 days ago

    I signed up to follow my brother and some other artists that post there and the first thing the website recommended to me was raw milk drinkers.

    Also the comments are consistently the most deranged they make youtube comments look tame by comparison

  • roux [he/him, they/them]
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    17 days ago

    Jeez yeah. I just made a new Facebook account for business reasons and since I signed up as a dude, it instantly decided I liked trucks and reels of half naked Asian girls for some reason. Kind of gross ngl. The alg for "men in 40s" isn't straight fucked.