I think so. There's a "Load from Library" option.
However, I don't know if the app they're using now will work on an older ipod.
― pplains, Friday, 11 November 2011 14:33 (twelve years ago) link
thanks dude!
― markers, Friday, 11 November 2011 15:08 (twelve years ago) link
wait what does instagram 'do' that is worth one billion dollars
― iatee, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
it puts...a filter on a photo? and lots of people use it? and that is worth one billion dollars?
― iatee, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:16 (twelve years ago) link
its free in the app store no one tell zuck
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
is facebook gonna monetize hipsters?
― iatee, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
hint: a lot (I don't know exactly how much) of the purchase price is in facebook stock, which is probably not actually worth as much as they say it is
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
I am (surprise surprise) enbb and mostly post pictures of (surprise surprise) my dog.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
the facebook stock is almost certainly going to be worth much more than its valued at atm when it goes public in a few months
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
but yeah I generally find it annoying when people put those cheap instagram-type filters on their photos. The iPhone camera takes such nice photos so easily, and people ruin them with this hazy nostalgia bullshit.
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
Exactly my thoughts.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
iphone camera (at least anything before the 4S) kinda sucks
― J0rdan S., Monday, 9 April 2012 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
I don't want to yell 'internet bubble' cause clearly fb and twitter and some things have a value that couldn't really have existed 10 years ago but this is just...a camera filter
― iatee, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
wasn't there another identical thing called hipstamatic?
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:29 (twelve years ago) link
fb and google do this kinda thing all the time tho? buying up technology to integrate it into their own platforms... not that i'm saying instagram is worth ONE BILLION DOLLARS *dr evil pinky* but it's kinda their m.o.
― J0rdan S., Monday, 9 April 2012 18:29 (twelve years ago) link
yeah but why do you even need to 'buy up that technology', do they really have a patent on hipster-camera-filters? as hurting said they're not even the first to do this
― iatee, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:30 (twelve years ago) link
my guess would be that instagram was working on some kind of expansion and fb caught wind of it and just decided to snatch whatever up whatever it was
― J0rdan S., Monday, 9 April 2012 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
instagram's "value" such as it is is in the social network aspect, not the filter aspect
― max, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
this is just...a camera filter
― iatee, Monday, April 9, 2012 2:27 PM (40 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
naw its a rapidly growing social network w/50m users whos main utility photo sharing is also facebooks main utility - idk abt the price but its obvs why facebook felt they needed to eat them
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I guess it makes more sense in that context
― iatee, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:32 (twelve years ago) link
I have never used it so I just see the pics *on* fb
ha guessing you all are not instagram users lol xp
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:32 (twelve years ago) link
really its "buying" 30 million users + ownership of the most popular photo-sharing social network. facebook loves photos b/c theyre significantly more interesting than links or status updates, as measured by the # of ppl who click on them and the amount of time they spned
― max, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
xp joe otm
i mean that being said 1 billion dollars is hilarious
i want a billion dollars
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:36 (twelve years ago) link
have you considered making an 'app'
― iatee, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:36 (twelve years ago) link
brb making an app
hipstamatic started out as just a camera filter app. they added on social stuff later after instagram took off.
or what max and joe said.
― dmr, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:37 (twelve years ago) link
if i had one the mega millions i would've bought scoopsnoodle for $1 million
― J0rdan S., Monday, 9 April 2012 18:37 (twelve years ago) link
won*
so they paid like 35 bucks per user
still smh
― the late great, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:37 (twelve years ago) link
no wonder my kids don't want to study math, obviously careers are for fools, i should be sitting around brainstorming the next killer social media platform
― the late great, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:38 (twelve years ago) link
number of instagram users should be getting a big bump up now that they have it for android too, the fact that they have as many users as they do and it was iphone only until last week is kinda crazy
― dmr, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:38 (twelve years ago) link
they paid $1 per photograph too
― max, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:39 (twelve years ago) link
its hilarious b/c its so overvalued, but also because like "one billion" is such a funny number
~1million new instagram users is the first 24 hours of andriod
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:39 (twelve years ago) link
and only $55 million per filter
― J0rdan S., Monday, 9 April 2012 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
so really this is just fb being really, really, really risk averse w/r/t competition
― iatee, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
hipstamatic could integrate a lot of products (books, prints, postcards) relatively easily. God knows if they'd actually make any money off of them, though.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
I've met so many people in the past couple years who just want collab on apps
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
er, Instagram not hipstamatic. (but them too)
collapps
― J0rdan S., Monday, 9 April 2012 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
a billion chinese, mark
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
hipstamatic's problem is that it's called hipstamatic
I dunno, everything has a stupid name these days
― iatee, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
did I post about how I met one dude who wanted to create some kind of app where you could trade stocks within some graphic framework that had lasers and explosions, like you are in some sort of virtual high octane vid game action movie etrade world or something
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
he was 100% serious too
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
― the late great, Monday, April 9, 2012 2:37 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i wonder if part of facebooks thinking is theyre abt to go public and theyll be getting more than $35 per user so they could actually make money off the deal as soon as they ipo
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
that sounds kinda fun xp
― iatee, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
i got 82 opiebucks to spend on amplification
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 21 September 2022 16:14 (one year ago) link
recently i thought i had ran across what i thought was a real person on instagram who was a fan of what i was making. she had actual comments that made sense and asked some questions about process and that kind of thing. i looked at her profile and saw that all of her pictures were pretty standard vacation photos, but that all of them from the last 2 months had many hundreds of "likes" and very generic comments (🔥🔥 to a photo of a wine glass on a table). and then, from the period just before that, they all had maybe 5 likes or 12 or 15. a normal amount. so i think she probably just bought a bunch of spam followers, as certain people on instagram like to do, i guess. but still, she was kind and complimentary to me and was asking real questions, so whatever.
then she asked where i lived and if she could visit and i blocked her. wtf is wrong with instagram
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 16:15 (one year ago) link
social media in general is ridiculous and toxic and i shouldn't be using it at all but i make these things and i want people to see the things i made
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 21 September 2022 16:18 (one year ago) link
then she asked where i lived and if she could visit and that's how your mother and I first met..
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Wednesday, 21 September 2022 16:23 (one year ago) link
Mine is set to private and will stay that way. If you want to see me you have to ask me to be let through the door. I will never go viral and receive only the most modest dopamine from posting to people who know me irl (mostly). It’s totally fine and I don’t really get spammers or scammers as of this posting.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Wednesday, 21 September 2022 17:19 (one year ago) link
the problem is that they're not always pointless. every once in a while, a stranger rando will say something really nice and it's pretty cool!
(of course, then it usually turns out that the rando is wearing a bikini in the profile pic and for some reason desperately wants me to click a link to see more pics)
― Karl Malone
with my friends it's the same except it's chasers who want to send them pictures of their cocks
instagram is the only public social media most of my friends use tho for whatever reason
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 21 September 2022 18:33 (one year ago) link
I can't even imagine how bad an Albanian jail is, hope they're released shortly
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 19:17 (one year ago) link
i can't imagine albanian jails either... whenever i try i just think of the season one simpsons episode "The Crepes of Wrath".
i wish they'd been more familiar with albania, god, they could have done an amazing send-up of hoxhaism. hell, maybe they _did_ do a send-up of hoxhaism sometime during season 27. nobody will ever know.
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 21 September 2022 20:44 (one year ago) link
I think the new Australian PM is from there.
― pplains, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 20:49 (one year ago) link
Is it me, or is Instagram suddenly full of ads and random accounts and videos as such?
It’s becoming a lot like another platform …
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 31 October 2022 11:27 (one year ago) link
It's not new, but yes. Hit the logo in the top left and choose 'following' to get rid of all (or most) of the rubbish. You have to do this every time you open the app.
― ledge, Monday, 31 October 2022 11:51 (one year ago) link
Thanks!
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 31 October 2022 13:28 (one year ago) link
Facebook being nothing but scammy ads and suggested posts makes sense because everyone I actually know has stopped posting there (I have to keep it for work) but Meta fucking up Instagram in the same way has been impressive.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 31 October 2022 20:55 (one year ago) link
The instagram image editor seems to have gone to shit - if I'm posting multiple images (as I usually do) then if I move one image in the viewport so it's centred where I want it to be, when I go to the next image the first one just resets itself. The last one edited works - so posting single images is fine.
― ledge, Friday, 27 January 2023 13:49 (one year ago) link
I tend not to post multiple images, partly because they have to follow the same aspect ratio (and I think I've had this issue you're reporting), and also because there's a loss of quality (or used to be).This probably makes my feed extra tedious, as I just post 5-6 images from the same place all the time.
― Michael Jones, Friday, 27 January 2023 13:53 (one year ago) link
I like DIY and "slow fashion" trends but let's just say that "cottage core" is not something I want to see...
As bad as coastal mom.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRsrsShs/
― Picture of Chairman Mao (I M Losted), Friday, 27 January 2023 23:22 (one year ago) link
Why is this house "cottage core" where I live it's just "urbex" (also run its course on Instagram)?
― Picture of Chairman Mao (I M Losted), Friday, 27 January 2023 23:24 (one year ago) link
I use mine for microblogging and from random comments I get, this seems discouraged.
Unfair, what gets favored is the whole "influencer" culture where people make daily posts with a consistent theme - fashion, design, etc.
― Picture of Chairman Mao (I M Losted), Saturday, 28 January 2023 08:10 (one year ago) link
Instagram has started to suggest MAGA/Covid conspiracy stuff way too regularly - and Paramore stan accounts. I don't follow anything political on IG and I'm not sure I've ever actually heard a Paramore song.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 9 March 2023 19:10 (one year ago) link
I primarily look at instagram on my laptop, not on my phone.. and for the longest time I saw no ads at all, and nobody I didn't know or agree to to follow
Now it's probably 25% ads and 30% people I've never heard of
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 9 March 2023 19:14 (one year ago) link
this is why i don't leave the house
― ꙮ (map), Thursday, 9 March 2023 19:43 (one year ago) link
I don't look at it much, and I'm glad my feed is appropriately limited to people playing drums or synths/DJing, but it's still feels like 50% people I don't follow (including a few popular ones that get served over and over again) and I generally hate the whole vibe.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 9 March 2023 20:44 (one year ago) link
so nice that there's an app solely dedicated to showing you videos of "comic" dialogues where one person plays all the parts
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Monday, 20 March 2023 12:41 (one year ago) link
Oh, there's more than just one app for that.
― pplains, Monday, 20 March 2023 13:24 (one year ago) link
Also know why insta doesn't have the same vibe as tiktok? The way insta makes the screen go up and down after a video finishes to prompt you to swipe.
Like, dammit, I was going to re-watch this wacky weatherman clip again, but now you're just making me seasick.
"Helpfulness" aside, it's wild that insta wouldn't consider viewers watching the same video multiple times.
― pplains, Monday, 20 March 2023 13:27 (one year ago) link
my favourite feature is when you want to watch some (dreadful pointless comedy meme) clip but you get interrupted and close the app. when you reopen you see the clip for a tantalising fraction of a second before you get scrolled to the top of your timeline, with no way of finding the clip ever again because it was from an account you don't follow.
― ledge, Monday, 20 March 2023 15:06 (one year ago) link
i just got a popup notification in an instagram group chat about an opportunity for me to start selling products. it let me know i can "share a product in the chat to start collecting orders for it."
just sharing this here as an invitation to join my new group chat on instagram, one of the fastest growing chats, and i need to tell you about some recent products that have changed my life
― z_tbd, Thursday, 27 April 2023 18:22 (eleven months ago) link
I love how every time I post something creative, I get lots of messages from all these bots about how I should use their service to get my stuff promoted
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 27 April 2023 21:27 (eleven months ago) link
I have no intent, nor interest, in joining Threads, but even less motivated to do so since the launch seems to have broken Instagram in the process. Within hours of the launch, 80% of the posts on my feed show up as blank grey squares, 10% show up as very blurry, the rest (sponsored ads, natch) appear just fine. Stories load about 20% of the time and almost every avatar is a blank grey circle. Good job Zuck!
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 7 July 2023 16:36 (nine months ago) link
So my feed still doesn't load and now Stories never load. Video posts load about 80% of the time, but photo posts are still a grey box. Apparently not a widespread enough issue for Meta to actually fix it, but according to Reddit and Twitter there are quite a few people dealing with the same thing. At least Twitter is still functional as it circles the drain, but I've never seen an app just completely stop doing the main thing it's intended to do (i.e. show photos) for this long before.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 14:52 (nine months ago) link
What the heck is happening with Instagram?
I’m someone who uses the platform through a browser app on my smartphone, not through the Insta app.
And for the last couple days I just can’t find any way to post things. It’s as though that has simply been taken away for absolutely no reason.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 16 July 2023 15:13 (nine months ago) link
Maybe make sure your software isn’t in need of an update? Usually something like that is the cause.
― But his face would not turn into hot Kirby (Evan), Sunday, 16 July 2023 15:44 (nine months ago) link
Evan, thanks! I’ll give that a shot.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 16 July 2023 15:54 (nine months ago) link
when did they change the views when you click on a hashtag from 'top posts / recent posts' to 'top posts / filter' and if you click on filter it brings up a menu with 'top posts / top recent posts' options? absolute dogshit ui design. i want recent posts not top recent posts, and two buttons where one performs an action and the other one brings up a menu which only contains two options one of which is the same as the first button has real 'ui design is my passion' energy.
― a holistic digital egosystem (ledge), Thursday, 20 July 2023 07:25 (nine months ago) link
I am getting ads for *ticketed* listening parties at music venues for albums like AFX SAW2 or MBV-MBV ...
I had no idea this was a thing and it makes me really grateful that I was around to see these artists live in person for less $ than these listening parties cost.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 19 April 2024 05:15 (six days ago) link