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in an algorithm-free world
What do these people think the word "algorithm" means? Something something dihydrogen monoxide.
What he really means is you'll see more native posts from brands, and not see as many ads, because they hide posts from brands to force them to pay to reach their own followers.
Everyone at Meta can fuck themselves to death
I'll share a short story of how the algorithm sucks. A friend's mom was dying of cancer. I knew it would be within a few days or week. He was texting me a lot - but in random bursts - trying to distract himself from the inevitable. I scrolled through IG, thought I saw it all, and having not heard from him in a while, I texted him something somewhat goofy.
He texted me back, "My mom just died". I had no idea. Sure enough, scroll another 5 minutes and buried at the end of my feed is his post from less than 2 hours ago.
Instagram made me look like a dick because they'd rather show me 26 hour old content, than 2 hour content.
You used your feed for info, rather than looking at his profile or asking him politely. That's not on Meta - that's on you.
Are you a bot? Asking for a friend.
That's the dumbest possible response, but I see you're just a troll.
And FYI this was right as they swapped out the original the chrono feed. I was vaguely aware it was happening, I don't know if I knew it had rolled out to me yet. I had only had a sneaking suspicion he'd post it there. And as I mentioned, I knew she had days to maybe a week. It would've been one of the top posts in a chrono feed.
Meta, decided, for their own gain, to change how their app worked, with essentially no warning, no choice and no transparency - wasn't like there was a big notification saying Your Feed Changed. The only thing different visually was the order of the timestamps.
For anyone else, I'll leave another example: https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2014/12/24/inadvertent-algorithmic-cruelty/
Last time i saw a friend using instagram, about every 3rd post was sponsored... So not much different?
Their real concern must be in the news title, not the fake one:
anyone who still uses instagram is likely to be overwhelmed just getting out of bed
You guys still use instagram? 😂😂😂😂
Use pixelfed, problem solved.
Pixelfed kind of sucks though and the creator's a dick.
(Not saying you shouldn't leave Instagram or trying to defend them)
It's fine to me. I haven't seen anything bad from the creator. He's a perfectionist, but that just means I have to wait for features, which is fine.
Actually, funny story, if you post more often actually people find it kind of irritating and they block you
"What ends up happening is the best way to get more reach is just to post more often and those who can afford to post the most often do and then therefore get the most reach,” he said.
“And it turns out your friends post a lot less than creators, who post a lot less than brands and companies.”
Yeah the behavior they're talking about is enabled by their algorithm. Without big brother curating how much of the content makes it to your feed, people just stop following spammy accounts.
It's presented as convenience ("we'll manage that for you") but it's actually manipulative ("we'll tune it to exactly as much as you will tolerate")
Meanwhile here on the Fediverse/Threadiverse, people are doing fine without an algorithm other than just boosting someone else's post.
You are concerned that you will make less money
So .. people will see the platform for what it really is?
This says a lot more about their platform management than it does about the value of their algorithm
the actual boss is zuckerberg.
Professional liar aays what
Wouldn’t they only see that if they followed brands? When I left ig a few years back besides the ads every three posts my home feed was just my friends’ posts and I could scroll to the end (all caught up) in 10 or so minutes if I checked it once a day
they would probably still inject ton of ads from brands