Gagarin1917 4 days ago

>"What's your Insta" is a standard line when you meet someone at a party.

Wow interesting, I thought social media was more an embarrassing thing to admit you participated in these days.

Not really, instagram is a way of keeping in touch, getting notified of new events, parties etc. I also follow a lot of people doing tattoos, makeup, cosplay etc.

One of the reasons was that Instagram until about 2 years ago was pretty cool about just showing you people you follow instead of dumping unwanted algorithmic shit on you. But after the rise of tiktok they have unfortunately mirrored that. You can still switch to following in the app but it keeps switching back.

It also gives the ability to follow people without giving your phone number which is really important because most of us aren't even known by our real names.

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Gagarin1917 4 days ago | parent [-]

>One of the reasons was that Instagram until about 2 years ago was pretty cool about just showing you people you follow instead of dumping unwanted algorithmic shit on you. But after the rise of tiktok they have unfortunately mirrored that. You can still switch to following in the app but it keeps switching back.

So it’s become an embarrassment within the last 2 years. Yeah, this is what I’m talking about.

	▲	wkat4242 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Why would it be an embarassment? I don't understand that. It's not like my profile is 'recommended' to others, that is not something that happens. They only promote 'influencer' content with tons of followers. Also, I have of course different accounts for different communities because they don't all intermix. Not because I care about that but because others do. I am not embarassed at all about what I do. It's just that it is harder to follow the people and organisations/parties I want now because there's other crap in between that I didn't ask for. Same thing that facebook did decades ago but instagram held off on for much longer.