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.
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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’ve been researching how Kimchi’s name spread beyond his original trading audience and bitfan’s July 31 profile reports that one of his X posts reached 25.6 million impressions, compared with roughly 500,000 for earlier posts. That’s about 51 times the earlier figure. These are reported impressions, so they don’t tell us how many individual people saw it or became followers. The content described in the article was largely lifestyle photography. My interpretation is that an existing audience already had a story to attach to those images, which gave people something to discuss when they shared them. That makes the distribution worth examining. I’d want to compare the original post with the quote posts that introduced him to other audiences, then look at whether that attention carried into subsequent uploads. The useful question for content work is how someone becomes recognisable outside the community that first knew them. Kimchi gives us a specific post and a substantial reported change in reach to start investigating.
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 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!!!
I have the last few days made it my mission to report every reel with real/Ai nudity per community guidelines. Out of about 50 reports, only 2 videos have been removed. And let me remind you they were all CLEAR NUDITY. I have not reported any suggestive nudity, only in you face real nudity, like some one showing breasts, or directly porn. But they all have some weird filters on, and I suspect it’s to fool Facebook ai, so the videos don’t get taken down. Is the process a real human looking at the videos or AI? What are we to do about the endless spamming of nude videos and porn on social media, when the AI can’t detect them?