Wow Instagram is so much worse than TikTok huh. (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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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.

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[-] vegeta1@hexbear.net 32 points 2 months ago

Comment section a sea of human scum on reels

[-] x87_floatingpoint@hexbear.net 28 points 2 months 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

[-] Andrzej3K@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

Many such cases. Something really needs to be done about it.

[-] GeorgeZBush@hexbear.net 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months 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@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months 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@hexbear.net 24 points 2 months 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@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months 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:

[-] polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 months 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@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months 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.

[-] polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 months ago

“For Rectal Use Only” and stuck them to a bunch of large objects

I should do that :peltier-laugh:

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

Strong 90's Ska Band cover energy.

[-] casskaydee@hexbear.net 21 points 2 months ago

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

[-] CarsAndComrades@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months 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@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months 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.

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago

I have never liked a manosphere video wtf would it send me that shit

[-] ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago

The algorithm probably also is feeding on your strong negative reaction to it

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 25 points 2 months ago

I fucking hate technocapitalism

[-] Owl@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago

I think Facebook's algorithm is like 90% how long you spend looking at a thing (tracking scrolling) and like/share/report/etc is irrelevant. I assume they made Insta the same.

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

That's probably just the default trash while it tries to figure you out.

[-] Riffraffintheroom@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months 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@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months 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@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months 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@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months 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@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months 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.

[-] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 months ago

Instagram comments are very racist

[-] meowMix2525@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago

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.