As a Millennial, one thing I will admit is that Zoomers have better taste than Millennials with social media.
I’ve used TikTok, and when I did, I would get maybe one advert per hour. Sometimes none at all. The adverts are generally for the same shit you’d get in TV. Not only that, but within minutes the algorithm understood what I did and didn’t want to see.
Unfortunately all my friends use Insta and demanded I get it so they can send me shit.
Instagram is fucking trash. I’m getting adverts once every two posts I look at so like once every 30 seconds. That’s insane. Not only that, but the quality of these ads is terrible, a lot of it is selling shirts with AI generated art printed on them. Even if they do show me a shop I like, if I look at reviews before buying 100% of the time the reviews are complaining that what they got sent looks nothing like the advert. The algorithm sucks too. It keeps showing me things in languages I don’t speak. For some reason it thinks I’m Ukrainian. I’ve been using this for a month now, why has it not caught on yet?
Why would anyone use this over TikTok? It is literally just advertising with a good video sprinkled in every now and again if you’re lucky. I mean, TikTok isn’t perfect by any means but at least it isn’t that bad.
its the best way I’ve found to find events and cool groups in my area. like truly countless awesome events, and queer parties and spaces. also the tic tok algo is TOO good, it knows exactly how to enrage me and piss me off with targeted precision.
How do you use Insta to find events?
sorry fell asleep. follow leftist and vegan and local queer groups you know of, they often collab with other groups and such . and i follow accounts specifically about things to do in my nearby cities. Many vegan accounts that review vegan places will also promote a lot of veg fest and pop-up shops. and at some point, the algo locked in on what I want and now it brings me cool stuff all the time. also if there’s a leftist group you know is legit, see who the account follows. there are often lots of more casual queer/leftist spaces, i don’t wanna get to specific in case i self dox lol.
Thanks for the advice 👍
For me its usually that local orgs and groups cross promote each other and their events. There are also region specific accounts that just aggregate events on certain topic.