Yeah turning off ad tracking gets you insane boner pill, fake health tricks, fake electrician tips, and all manner of shyster bullshit advertising from the lowest bidders if you ever load YouTube without an ad blocker.
I suspect the same will happen with this.
A platform that lets you only see people you anpprove and force opt-in to all others is probably a better plan.
A platform that lets you only see people you anpprove and force opt-in to all others is probably a better plan.
For me personally, this is the main appeal of Lemmy. I decide what I want to see.
On YouTube and Instagram, for instance, you do have channels you subscribe to, but the sites/apps show you a lot of other related content.
On YouTube I probably follow maybe 60 channels so that’s probably not enough content to show me everyday.
YouTube also has a tab where you can just see your subscriptions. So that’s kind of convenient.
That’s probably the only nice thing I can say about YouTube.
But on Instagram I follow a few hundred (400ish) accounts. . Mostly artist. Probably 50 are friends I know irl.
Yet most of what comes up in my feed is not these. I have to manually go look at my friends’s posts or I never see them. Same with favorite artist.
So “following” seems to mean jack shit on Instagram.
Yeah, I started out using Lemmy with the All feed and removing comms I didn’t like, but more recently I’m trying to only use the home section and curate more.
Yeah turning off ad tracking gets you insane boner pill, fake health tricks, fake electrician tips, and all manner of shyster bullshit advertising from the lowest bidders if you ever load YouTube without an ad blocker.
I suspect the same will happen with this.
A platform that lets you only see people you anpprove and force opt-in to all others is probably a better plan.
For me personally, this is the main appeal of Lemmy. I decide what I want to see.
On YouTube and Instagram, for instance, you do have channels you subscribe to, but the sites/apps show you a lot of other related content.
On YouTube I probably follow maybe 60 channels so that’s probably not enough content to show me everyday.
YouTube also has a tab where you can just see your subscriptions. So that’s kind of convenient.
That’s probably the only nice thing I can say about YouTube.
But on Instagram I follow a few hundred (400ish) accounts. . Mostly artist. Probably 50 are friends I know irl.
Yet most of what comes up in my feed is not these. I have to manually go look at my friends’s posts or I never see them. Same with favorite artist.
So “following” seems to mean jack shit on Instagram.
Yeah, I started out using Lemmy with the All feed and removing comms I didn’t like, but more recently I’m trying to only use the home section and curate more.