Instagram is not actually worse than before, sure, the content there is worse, but people spend more time on it, and as such it is doing its job as a social media platform well
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negativeyoda@lemmy.world 9 months agoInstagram is absolute garbage compared to how it used to be. It’s still massive. Once people are hooked, it’s hard to wean them off. People were livid at reddit, but only a fraction of those who spoke up are here
Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
ICastFist@programming.dev 9 months ago
I hate it that being successful and being a piece of shit are not mutually exclusive
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Enshitification is a milestone in the life of a product now.
loobkoob@kbin.social 9 months ago
What's changed about Instagram? I'm not familiar enough to know, but I don't feel like I've heard anything all that controversial about it outside of Meta's general "pay to remove ads" thing. I certainly haven't heard anything about systemic enshittification like I have with Twitter, Reddit and TikTok; have I missed anything?
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
It used to be you saw what you subscribed to. Now every third posted is suggested. Many of them have paid to be suggested, not even talking about the ads which seem like every other post. It used to be about pictures, now it’s all reels, loud and obnoxious.
loobkoob@kbin.social 9 months ago
Ahh, that's the same path Facebook went down a decade ago then. Yay, capitalism...
poppy@lemm.ee 9 months ago
I know it doesn’t fix the fact the ruined main feed, but if you click on “Instagram” on the top left then select “Following” from the drop-down that appears, you will get a chronological feed of only the people you follow—no ads no suggested posts. Only reels if they were posted by someone you follow.
EatATaco@lemm.ee 9 months ago
If only you were commenting on an article that discusses what happened to Instagram.
Speculater@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The average user doesn’t even know anything happened.
dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
API? That’s like being gay or trans right?