> I'm trying to make Instagram be what my parents said Facebook was.
Hell, you're trying to make Instagram be what Instagram used to be. Back in the early (pre-Meta) days, it was just a reverse-chronological feed of the posts from people you followed.
A decent part of why I bailed on Instagram back in 2019 or so was because it had stopped being this for a while (posts reordered, some not even shown, so many ads).
varenc 5 minutes ago [-]
From the gist:
> I'm trying to make Instagram be what my parents said Facebook was
This sure makes me feel old. It's a great goal though. I miss the golden era of Facebook when it was really just friend content.
hmokiguess 53 minutes ago [-]
I don't use the app so I confess I'm a little confused, I saw your screenshot and it seems like the end result is just scrolling through nothing. Why would you want that? Isn't it better to just not open it altogether? Like, block the entire thing? Why scroll through a bunch of blur
shraiwi 43 minutes ago [-]
The screenshot was to demonstrate what blocked posts look like. I scrolled past the posts of my friends since I didn't want to dox them, but organic posts do show up near the top of my feed.
The goal isn't to scroll through nothing, but rather have a clean feed that shows me just my friends and nothing else.
SirMaster 7 minutes ago [-]
So why blur and not just hide?
Forgeties79 48 minutes ago [-]
Same reason people use app timers when they can elect to not use the app instead.
maurelius2 49 minutes ago [-]
> I'm trying to make Instagram be what my parents said Facebook was.
Christ, I'm old.
apples_oranges 1 hours ago [-]
i was hoping Instagram would add a toggle to get rid of this stuff!
in_a_hole 48 minutes ago [-]
On the mobile app you can tap the Instagram logo and there's an option to show only posts from your follows. It's not sticky, unfortunately.
Also if you're on android I recommend:
distractionfreeapps.com/
They make a bootleg version of the app with the ability to remove certain feeds, e.g. reels, discover, stories
Hell, you're trying to make Instagram be what Instagram used to be. Back in the early (pre-Meta) days, it was just a reverse-chronological feed of the posts from people you followed.
A decent part of why I bailed on Instagram back in 2019 or so was because it had stopped being this for a while (posts reordered, some not even shown, so many ads).
> I'm trying to make Instagram be what my parents said Facebook was
This sure makes me feel old. It's a great goal though. I miss the golden era of Facebook when it was really just friend content.
The goal isn't to scroll through nothing, but rather have a clean feed that shows me just my friends and nothing else.
Also if you're on android I recommend:
distractionfreeapps.com/
They make a bootleg version of the app with the ability to remove certain feeds, e.g. reels, discover, stories
https://www.instagram.com/?variant=following
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