The Instagram Feed We Thought We Wanted

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Entertainment News, News, Tech News, Society & Culture

3.8 • 678 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

This week, Instagram announced the return of chronological feeds to the platform, allowing users to toggle between the standard algorithmic feed and two separate chronological ones. On the show today, Madison and Rachelle talk about these new changes, whether we really want newsfeeds with such a strict structure, and why, regardless of which way we go, we’re still at the will of the algorithm. Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:23.6	Adobe Express, the quick and easy create anything app.
0:28.6	People assume that time is a strict progression of course to affect,
0:33.6	but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint,
0:36.6	it's more like a big
0:38.0	ball of wibbly wobbly, timely, stuff.
0:43.1	Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton.
0:44.8	And I'm Madison Malam Kircher.
0:46.3	You're listening to I-C-YMIMI.
0:48.0	In case you missed it.
0:49.2	Slate's podcast about internet culture.
0:51.9	The Oscars are coming.
0:53.2	It's almost here.
0:58.6	Yay. I'm so excited.
1:03.6	Because you can tell I'm genuinely excited in my household. We celebrate, you know,
1:10.2	the high holidays, Christmas, Easter, the Academy Awards. Yeah. Mm-hmm. I celebrate at least one of those. So clearly I've already fell out my
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