I am so not "getting" this Instagram thing / do you guys want to look at each others pictures?

i finally get instagram. it's so much less pressure than twitter and even facebook. there's very little talking! no need to craft a joke! you just look! and like! that's it! but i now am connecting with friends that i never connected with before on FB or tworter. yes tworter.

I sure know a lot of people who like cats

Instagram suggestions are the worst - I follow one friend who's a local MMA fighter, so the suggestions are non-stop UFC and wrestling memes.
Then I guess I know some vegans because today it was all horrifying PETA ad stuff with people shooting animals for fur and dead lambs. WTF.

someone told me they like instagram more than other social media bc no one can complain on instagram

(that is not a challenge)

yeah there are no flame wars, no bullying, no LINKS it's amazing

no people, all brands and bots

well i just don't follow "influencers" job done

i tried FaceApp after seeing all my friends do some crazy stuff w it on instagram. it's pretty wild. you have to pay to get a lot of the options, but you can still generate Smiling, Young, Old, Male, Female versions of faces. it's pretty spooky. lol i did the old one and i think it was too realistic looking it was scary lol.

it is pretty remarkable how well the algorithm does its job imo so far everything looks very seamless and it is supremely creepy to see an app photoshop a almost-perfect smile onto your face in 15 seconds. fun app if you like cyber divining.

when i ran the "old" filter on me i thought it was showing me a picture of my dad it had found somewhere on my phone. terrifying.

OTM i was going to say that!

fortune telling AI these days

Instagram Stories rules. like a tv channel run by your friends. the silly filters are awesome and easy to use. and very impressive! it can do motion tracking on any human face (ive not been able to get this to work on my cat, which i hope they are working on rn) including if you are watching tv. i used it on Twin Peaks

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I hate instagram stories because everyone that I loved to follow on snapchat switched over and uses instagram now. Mixed in with all the other people I follow on instagram who I have no desire to see their stories.

why can't you mute people on instagram already?

word

i guess they are forcing a choice
you either have to follow someone or not

at least it makes unfollowing less fraught because it happens more often

i like the memes on instagram.

It’s time to move on. What’s the new new ?

livejournal

friendster

ICQ

iirc telegrams are making a comeback

ha, if I said flickr, you'd think I was joining in with all these other jokers.

Almost signed up with vero, but something about it just didn't seem right.

Idk Flickr might get hip again now it was bought back from yahoo

Guys guys can I get a serious answer please

pono

ello

digg

is Facebook still around that seemed like a good website

usenet

the new thing is posting polaroids down drains or leaving them under pebbles at the beach

Musical.ly

penpals

why can't you mute people on instagram already?

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oh god for real

but then i heard if i unfollow enough people i can return to the linear timeline so time to burn some bridges

yeah i am a lot pickier about who i will follow back because i don't want to be bombarded
i have unfollowed people because i can't deal with their volume of posts

Crazy thing is you can post multiple photos under one post! But noooooooo.....

lol at posts back in 2011 astounded that instagram was worth a billion dollars. that might have been the bargain of the century.

The instagram stories feature is one of the loneliest corners of the internet to me, a handful of people I follow just posting the same tired shit day in day out

i don't pay attention to stories
if someone wants to tell me something important, it will have to be more direct. i also don't like that it shows you who saw it. i have never posted one.

i feel like "normal" insta posts have become more polished over time, like flickr. stories now are more like regular posts used to be. they feel more suited to ephemeral stuff because they disappear after 24 hrs. it's like the "behind the scenes" version of your insta lyfe.

(also it shows up right at the top of people's feeds so they stand a better chance of seeing it)

i understand how they might work for some people. i don't like the way instagram incentivizes stories with the ability to see who has seen them. that makes them less appealing to me. the whole hierarchy of posts and what they mean is so tiresome. i just want people to remember i exist. that's about it.

now that i think about it, it bugs me that stories don't have likes. or maybe that's good, and regular posts shouldn't have likes either. i don't know. but they work totally differently, which is like.... why? you can comment on stories (i think?) but nobody ever does because it's not obvious how to do it.

why does it bug you that you can see who's seen your stories LL? you don't want to know?

i love stories. its like a tv channel run by friends & acquaintances and the UI is so easy to use, skipping to the next is a single tap. oh look, it's the bar i used to play, or wow my friend is at a temple Japan, or checking out highlights from last night's big concert.

i can see how it would work for other people, just not for me.

why does it bug you that you can see who's seen your stories LL? you don't want to know?
i haven't posted any, but no i generally don't want to know who has seen something. if someone likes something, that is nice but if someone has seen something...idk what that is supposed to say to me. it's one of the reasons i have never posted one. i want fewer quantification options in general, not more.

(also why i value ilx -- no quantification aside from the # of times i have posted, which is up to me)