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.
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.
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
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
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
The most miserable people on the planet are in the Instagram comments sections
https://www.instagram.com/p/C-vJnwpI2rO/
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_yfSdAvpzk/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Instagram is a top tier emotional poison. It's up there with LinkedIn for being emotionally damaging to use because of all the toxic pressures it puts on users.
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
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
Usually I have to start from a reel that a friend sent me, which I would want to see more of, to get good algo picks.
I like the dumb algo. Same with youtube shorts. Makes it somewhat easier to stop scrolling at some point and do something more productive with my time. I also get my short form content fix without getting sucked into the ecosystem/community/mentality of tiktok.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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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.
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.
“For Rectal Use Only” and stuck them to a bunch of large objects
I should do that :peltier-laugh:
