Bend Over, Facebook is Back - Page 41

specious_reasons · #**1001** 08-27-2023, 05:41 PM

Threads is available as a web page now, but you need to sign up on the app first, so I guess I won't be using Threads.

I think it's also time to give up on Instagram for a while. It suggested an account I had blocked the day before, and I've had other technical issues with it.

LarsMac · #**1002** 08-27-2023, 06:17 PM

Ari · #**1003** 08-27-2023, 09:42 PM

Enshittification comes to mind as the longer I browse Instagram reels the smaller the content becomes and the more comments appear around the video as it gets wrung through spam accounts.

The Instagram reels algorithm is just so damn aggressive. Occasionally I’ve enjoyed zoning out and having insta put moving pictures and sounds in front of my face, but it doesn’t take long till I have to pay attention again to cull the experience.

Yes I do like 15-20 second clips of absurd baseball plays such as a Japanese batter hitting the ball through a tiny opening in the stadium roof, no I don’t really like baseball, oh god why is everything now baseball!

specious_reasons · #**1004** 08-27-2023, 10:17 PM

Reels is terrible. All of them are too short - like I didn't even have the time to read the caption on the photo, or the video cuts off well before it's actually finished. Why present me with a short video if you're not going to show me the whole thing? I dislike Reels enough that I refuse to learn if there's ways to fix it.

Then I was having a problem where the feed wouldn't scroll past some posts - it would force focus back to something earlier in the feed.

The experience is poor in general, but at least I could find a decent number of people I wanted to follow on that platform. Maybe I'll just sit out a while, let the social media upheaval happen, and then think about it again.

Ari · #**1005** 08-27-2023, 11:38 PM

Get ready to hate it more, as from what I understand that’s on purpose.
The algorithm heavily favors completed videos, even if they’re only a few seconds long, so sometimes letting a few of the same types of reels complete in a row will just shunt you down the path of more more more, even if the total watch time was only a few seconds.