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Martin Hackworth's avatar

This is about the best thing I've read in a good while - and I read for a living. Massive respect.

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Blue Fairy Wren's avatar

I completely deleted my Facebook account in 2015 and am astounded that anyone still uses it at all. Zuckerberg totally ruined Instagram as well. It was the number 1 platform for artists to show and sell their work. That is, until Zuckerberg bought it and decided that, like with FB, the algorithm would decide what you get to see. Many artists were suddenly in a position of their engagement and therefore their incomes (not generally huge in the first place) plummetting. Now everyone is scrambling to make reels to please the algorithm - idiotic short form video content that no one asked for on Instagram. Same with youtube - it is now prioritising short form content which seems to mean videos under 1 or 2 minutes in length. Used to be on youtube that if you followed someone and clicked on notifications you'd get an email letting you know they had posted. Now, it might show you videos from those you follow, but they will stay in your home feed only briefly. I find myself going to my subscriptions and scrolling through to find videos from creators I like. No matter how many times I tell the algorithm that I'm not interested in plastic doll 20-somethings extolling their make up techniques they still continue to pop up from time to time. I wish we could go back to 2009 when the internet was still fun.

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