Instagram Hates Its Users

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[ErinHonor]

Im an artist and while Instagram isn't the ideal way to showcase art, it has really been the only platform where my art can get any traction. Watching my engagement drop by over 50% over the last few months + feeling forced to make my art process a performance that I can film as a reel has been very disheartening.

[clementinedanger]

From time to time I'll hear someone say "how can they do that to their customers?" and when it comes to social media, friend, you are not the customer. The advertisers are. You are the product.

[Rachelsummers]

I’m so sick of every app becoming like this. The amount of times I’ve found myself losing track of time scrolling through instagram reels and YouTube shorts is sad honestly. And I can tell that it’s making my attention span shorter.

[sparklestarspompomunicorn]

can’t believe tumblr is the last social media with a chronological timeline…

[Claire-luhf]

As someone who got off tiktok because short content messed with my anxiety, I’m so frustrated that every app has decided to become tiktok

[monzterzackuncut]

tumblr seems to be the last platform standing when it comes to not using algorithms on their feed, and this is not cause they are good at what they do, its cause they are incredibly incompetent at programing, moving any part of their base code crashes their site... but in a way thats the beauty of that site

[uts_]

“TikTok has been becoming TikTok for years now”
such wise words Jarvis, can’t agree more

[tophatturtle]

As someone who just graduated high school, I’m like 80% sure that in the end insta is just gonna become gen-z facebook. Instagram is literally just the thing i’ve been using to keep track of my school friends that i probably won’t keep in touch with in the future. 5-10 years from now (assuming it’s still around) it’s just gonna be the thing i check occasionally to look at my old classmates wedding photos and find out when the reunion will be.

[ladynoluck]

Instagram: Makes algorithm favor videos
Users: Make more videos to stay relevant for the algorithm
Instagram: “See? People are shifting to video on their own!”

[HisVirusness]

I sometimes forget that Jarvis is a professional software developer, so he's making no assumptions; he knows what he's talking about when it comes to online services.

[loralogue]

Shoutout to tumblr users for just refusing to let them force us out of a chronological feed. Yahoo lost $1 billion because we made the app so toxic to advertisers. Porn ban aside we've done a pretty good job of beating the company into submission.

[FranklyBuilt]

"If Youtube started to prioritize shorts over all other content"

that didn't age well. At. All.

[roughentumble]

as a daily tumblr user, that site has yet to start becoming tiktok. it is, in some ways, immune to trends like that, which is what makes it so nice to hang out on. you know exactly what you're getting, chronological feed, it's easy for content to spread without any algorithms... also it's nice and quiet cuz everyone left

[adventurer]

Artists on Instagram are losing so much interaction and it hurts to see people losing interest in your art just because its not an animation...

[madhatty-fqsh]

Dude I'm a casual Instagram user and I can not express how much I HATE the algorithm home page. Like I will see 3 posts, each multiple days old, from a large account in a single scroll, but will not get any posts from people who I know in real life. And probably 75% of the accounts I follow are people I know in real life. This actually makes me want to spend less time on the app.

[razznatazz]

I’m an instagram artist and getting any traction these days is so much harder than it was even like 5 years ago. It’s really disheartening that drawings I spend hours on get so little recognition because it’s not a video. I wouldn’t mind reels so much if Instagram wasn’t trying to make it the ENTIRE platform. It should be a photo sharing app with videos as a bonus.

[thelastchannelonyoutube]

At least with YouTube Shorts the main core of the website is still intact. Instagram is looking to change the app into something different almost entirely, essentially forcing millions of users into using an app they did not ask for.

[p-h-a-n-t-o-m]

there’s no bigger company killer than corporate greed

[blue-dabad]

"there are new instagram users being born every day" what a horrifying statement, thanks Jarvis! (also your hair looks fantastic!)

[kayak.m]

Its so frustrating for people like artists (and as you mentioned, photographers) or anyone who was used to the photo based algorithm to gain publicity to now just switch to reels. I don't use tiktok, but I get recommended art compilations sometimes, and the art videos are just so long and drawn out, I'm not even interested to see the end product half of the time.