I got fed up with feeds full of suggested/random content instead of the people I actually follow. Curious if this resonates with anyone else here or if I'm overthinking a problem nobody else has.
Yeah is there any type of extension in which you can stop seeing recommended content for separate social medias? This is a problem for me too
you’re not overthinking it, the whole point of following people kinda disappears when the app keeps shoving strangers at you, so why don’t they just make chronological following feeds the default?
I’d love a true following-only default with a separate discovery lane. The useful part of recommendations is finding new accounts; the frustrating part is having that mixed into the feed I opened specifically to catch up with people I already chose to follow.
Bluesky does that
Yep this is Meta
YESSSS OMG, THIS IS SO TRUE
I use a bunch of browser extensions that try to clean up my feeds, but… people I care about still don’t see my posts. It’s all just ads these days. Makes it all rather pointless and a waste of time.Â
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Kind of . I think there should be an option at least . Because I also see work opportunities with the algo sneaking the posts in , that’s how I know where all I can apply etc. but I lowkey wish if I had another account with a voluntary feed only - there should be an option like a non that we can toggle . Same goes for ads but they will obviously not give us that .
Happens with me too
I started making reels in July about dev tools. I'm a software engineer, not an editor, so I put most of my effort into getting the editing right. Every reel went through several rounds of fixes: captions, zooms, sound, B-roll, music. My reels have now crossed 50k views, but for the first 55 days none of that editing work moved the numbers. After 14 reels I pulled the real numbers from Instagram insights and compared them with my edit history. The craft had clearly improved. The views hadn't moved at all. Reel #1 got 1,482 views, reel #14 got 1,295. Then I grouped the reels by topic and the pattern was obvious: "Get this paid thing for free" reels: median 1,482 views (3 reels, all 1,476 or more) Big brand plus some drama: median 1,211 (6 reels) "Here's a useful tool": median 522 (3 reels, none above 692) My own product: 429 (1 reel) The free and tool ranges didn't overlap at all. Same person, same editing, same face, and 3x the views depending on what the reel was about. The second thing that hurt was a 17-day break in the middle. The reel I came back with had my best engagement ever (people who saw it liked it) and only 185 views. Every other reel got between 400 and 1,900. What I took from it as a small account: topic and the hook headline decide reach before the edit even exists. Polish keeps the people who already see the reel, but it doesn't get the reel seen. And gaps are expensive. Small sample, I know. For people who've grown past this stage: did editing quality ever start to matter for you, or was it always topic and consistency?
Hey all, I own a business that involves many clients that promote their product, art or website with TikTok (also Instagram, Youtube and Facebook). I want to offer them a way to post their content, or to get content created and posted for them on existing TikTok pages. Basically you got pages in a specific theme (sport, anime, cinema, culture, memes...) and you rent it for a specific period of time. You get paid every month, and all you have to do is basically connecting the account once to our system. You can opt-out anytime you want, you keep the full ownership of the account. That's basically a way to monetize your pages passively. For now I'm doing it myself with my own pages (3 tiktok pages with 500 to 3k followers, and 1 6k subscribers Youtube channel), I made around $800 renting these for less than a month. If someone is interested, please comment or DM!
I've been absolutely obsessed with short form content for the last two years. Like people have staged actual interventions about my health level of obsessed. I'm talking 11-14 hour days breaking down what separates successful videos from failures, experimenting with different hook variations, rewriting scripts until my brain hurts, testing every editing approach I could possibly get my hands on. Why this level of obsession? Because I'm absolutely certain short form video is the backbone of everything right now. Growing followers, selling anything, generating opportunities, creating brands from nothing. Every part of it depends on whether you can hold someone's attention for 30 seconds. But here's what nearly made me quit entirely: despite the constant daily grind, nothing was hitting. I'd pour 7-8 hours into crafting one video only to watch it crash at 300 views. Tried every tactic from every person claiming to have figured it out. Bought their courses. Applied their "proven" methods. Still going nowhere. I seriously started thinking maybe I'm just not the type of person who can make this work. Like maybe there's some fundamental ability I'm completely lacking. Then something clicked. I'm grinding constantly, but I'm operating completely blind. I don't actually know what's broken. I'm essentially just trying random things hoping something eventually works. So I stopped hunting for some mythical viral code and started analyzing actual data. Analyzed my last 50 videos second by second, documented every retention drop, and discovered 5 consistent patterns that were systematically killing my performance: 1. **Vague mysterious hooks are totally invisible** "This will transform you..." gets scrolled past every time. But "I used resistance bands for 55 days and my shoulder mobility actually decreased" stops people mid scroll. Specific concrete details destroy vague teasing without exception. 2. **Seconds 5-7 are where everything gets decided** Most viewers leave between 4-7 seconds if you haven't proven it's worth watching. I was creating slow buildups like a complete amateur. Now my strongest visual or most compelling number arrives exactly at second 5. That's where the hook that genuinely holds people. 3. **Any gap beyond 1 second absolutely kills your retention** Tracked this obsessively, anything past 1.2 seconds makes people think the video stopped. What feels like natural comfortable pacing to you reads as complete dead time to someone scrolling. Cut significantly tighter than feels normal. 4. **Visual variety is absolutely critical** If nothing changes on screen for more than 3 seconds, attention vanishes without warning. I started constantly rotating camera angles, cutting to b-roll, moving text placement, literally anything to maintain constant visual movement. Went from losing 50% at the halfway mark to keeping 70%. 5. **Rewatch rate is dramatically more important than most people realize** Videos people watch more than once get pushed exponentially harder by the algorithm. Started planting subtle details that aren't obvious first viewing, editing faster, adding elements worth discovering on rewatch. Rewatch percentage jumped from 8% to 31% and reach went completely through the roof. Honestly the biggest shift was abandoning all guesswork and actually measuring what was happening at every second. Came across this one app that goes way beyond showing where people drop off, it literally tells you why and exactly how to correct it. That's when everything transformed. Went from averaging 300 views to hitting 18k in about 4 weeks. Regular analytics show you people are leaving. This one shows the exact second, the actual reason, and what to adjust before your next post. If you're uploading consistently but stuck below 1k views, your content isn't the problem. You just don't know what's genuinely working versus what you assume is working. Listen, I'm sharing this because breaking through was honestly one of the hardest things I've tackled. I really wish someone had just explained exactly what needed fixing when I was stuck there. Would have saved months of confusion and doubt. So that's what I'm doing now for anyone who needs it.
Ayudame a obtener seguidores. Recientemente deje mi trabajo para dedicarme a algo más tranquilo en esta transmisión me he dedicado a crear videos y he decidido dar entrada a esta cuenta en instagram para publicar cositas @laruthiee https://www.instagram.com/laruthiee?exln=djA4dXF5MXRwdHVv
I posted here a while back about Followlly, the thing we were building to figure out what to film next based on numbers instead of gut feeling. A bunch of you left good feedback so I figured I owe you an update. Short version of what it does now: it watches TikTok and Reels in your niche, catches videos that did way better than that creator usually does, tries to explain why (hook, length, sound, how it's structured) and turns that into a script for your account. It also compares your own videos against your own videos at the same age, so something posted 6 hours ago doesn't look like a flop next to stuff that's been up for weeks. People seem to like that part more than I expected. You just connect by handle, no passwords. We crossed 50 customers last week, which honestly I didn't expect this fast. Last time some of you called out real problems, and fair enough, you were right. One person said a tool like this just teaches everyone to copy each other. That one stung a bit, so now it pulls out the mechanic of a video (like a then-vs-now reveal or a mistake-and-fix format) and drops the topic and wording completely. Someone else noticed a video's own views were counted in the "usual" number it was being compared to, which made everything look better than it was. Fixed that. We also added "based on N videos" so you can see when a number is sitting on a tiny sample, and videos under a day old now get a "new" tag instead of showing crazy views-per-day. The thing I keep coming back to though is the data. We track a bunch of niches every week and small accounts blow up way more often than you'd think. This month we saw around 20 videos that got 100x to 2000x more views than the account had followers. One skincare account with 2.9k followers got 2.8M views on a video about toner. Toner. Also "keep it short" doesn't really hold up right now, at least in beauty. 3 out of 4 of the top videos there are over a minute, median is around 2 and a half minutes. And trending sounds matter less than everyone says. In fitness 96% of views this week went to videos with just original audio or a voiceover. The fastest growing one doesn't even have a caption lol. So my takeaway so far is the first couple seconds and whether people stick around matter way more than follower count or what song you picked. Next up is better coverage for niches outside beauty and fitness, and a weekly email with breakouts in your niche. There's also a free niche check on the site if you want to poke at it, no signup. Curious though, what's the biggest gap you've had between your follower count and views on one video?
Recently I’ve begun getting a lot more AI slop on my for you page. I guess it’s because of AI now being able to operate software like Blender right? Either way, my real question is: how do I get rid of it? I want my for you page to be genuine authentic content but I can’t seem to find a setting that lets me block out the slop. Any help would be much appreciated!!!