why can't you mute people on instagram already?
― ||||||||, Sunday, 11 March 2018 19:43 (six years ago) link
word
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 11 March 2018 20:33 (six years ago) link
i guess they are forcing a choiceyou either have to follow someone or not
at least it makes unfollowing less fraught because it happens more often
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Sunday, 11 March 2018 21:56 (six years ago) link
i like the memes on instagram.
― ian, Sunday, 11 March 2018 22:43 (six years ago) link
It’s time to move on. What’s the new new ?
― calstars, Sunday, 22 April 2018 21:59 (six years ago) link
livejournal
― the yolk sustains us, we eat whites for days (unregistered), Sunday, 22 April 2018 22:29 (six years ago) link
friendster
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 22 April 2018 22:32 (six years ago) link
ICQ
― after party for the apocalypse (Ross), Sunday, 22 April 2018 22:38 (six years ago) link
iirc telegrams are making a comeback
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 22 April 2018 22:46 (six years ago) link
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.
― pplains, Sunday, 22 April 2018 23:01 (six years ago) link
Idk Flickr might get hip again now it was bought back from yahoo
― valorous wokelord (silby), Sunday, 22 April 2018 23:07 (six years ago) link
Guys guys can I get a serious answer please
― calstars, Sunday, 22 April 2018 23:34 (six years ago) link
pono
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 23 April 2018 02:23 (six years ago) link
ello
― you bet, nancy (map), Monday, 23 April 2018 04:29 (six years ago) link
digg
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 23 April 2018 04:36 (six years ago) link
is Facebook still around that seemed like a good website
― Clay, Monday, 23 April 2018 04:39 (six years ago) link
usenet
― Lee626, Monday, 23 April 2018 09:31 (six years ago) link
the new thing is posting polaroids down drains or leaving them under pebbles at the beach
― ogmor, Monday, 23 April 2018 09:36 (six years ago) link
Musical.ly
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 23 April 2018 10:15 (six years ago) link
penpals
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 23 April 2018 19:51 (six years ago) link
― ||||||||, Sunday, March 11, 2018 12:43 PM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
oh god for real
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 23 April 2018 19:55 (six years ago) link
but then i heard if i unfollow enough people i can return to the linear timeline so time to burn some bridges
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 23 April 2018 19:56 (six years ago) link
yeah i am a lot pickier about who i will follow back because i don't want to be bombardedi have unfollowed people because i can't deal with their volume of posts
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 23 April 2018 19:57 (six years ago) link
Crazy thing is you can post multiple photos under one post! But noooooooo.....
― pplains, Monday, 23 April 2018 20:15 (six years ago) link
lol at posts back in 2011 astounded that instagram was worth a billion dollars. that might have been the bargain of the century.
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 23 April 2018 20:23 (six years ago) link
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
― badg, Monday, 23 April 2018 20:55 (six years ago) link
i don't pay attention to storiesif 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.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 23 April 2018 22:17 (six years ago) link
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)
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 23 April 2018 23:18 (six years ago) link
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.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 23 April 2018 23:26 (six years ago) link
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.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 23 April 2018 23:30 (six years ago) link
why does it bug you that you can see who's seen your stories LL? you don't want to know?
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 23 April 2018 23:31 (six years ago) link
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.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 23 April 2018 23:38 (six years ago) link
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.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 23 April 2018 23:45 (six years ago) link
(also why i value ilx -- no quantification aside from the # of times i have posted, which is up to me)
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 23 April 2018 23:46 (six years ago) link
lol it says they've seen it, is what it is supposed to say! :) but i totally understand the kickback against the weird competitiveness and statscock measuring that social media can engender
xpost
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 23 April 2018 23:47 (six years ago) link
“You gonna ‘Gram that?”
― calstars, Saturday, 26 May 2018 17:38 (six years ago) link
I didn’t get it until my niece and daughter started posting. Now I’m all about it.
― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Saturday, 26 May 2018 22:06 (six years ago) link
Sorry to hear
― calstars, Saturday, 26 May 2018 22:24 (six years ago) link
what's the significance of the 89,100 profiles listed in the instagram directory? why are there so many Arabic spambots? I don't see any rhyme or reason to the way they're catalogued, and I have no idea who (aside from spambots) would get any use out of this feature
― the yolk sustains us, we eat whites for days (unregistered), Monday, 28 May 2018 17:19 (six years ago) link
ah, it looks like they're loosely organized by follower count, but beyond that it just seems like a random sampling of profiles
― the yolk sustains us, we eat whites for days (unregistered), Monday, 28 May 2018 17:23 (six years ago) link
that doesn't look like a page that makes any logical sense, like it was someone proofing out api calls or it used to do something different but for some reason is still live
― (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ (mh), Monday, 28 May 2018 21:38 (six years ago) link
lot of people who would have been big facebook users have definitely migrated over to instagram in the past year. getting a lot more facebooky content these days
― ||||||||, Thursday, 19 July 2018 20:36 (six years ago) link
Instagram seems to be down.
― Ned Trifle X, Monday, 3 September 2018 21:32 (six years ago) link
seems like there are some photos from people i follow that never show up on my timeline now. i even got an "x just posted for the first time in a while!" notification for a photo that was never on the timeline. i could only see it by going to that person's own instagram page. i've mostly noticed it for people who have private accounts.
― circles, Saturday, 8 September 2018 02:39 (six years ago) link
I still don’t understand Instagram
― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Saturday, 8 September 2018 03:38 (six years ago) link
It's a mobile phone application that allows users to gram instantly
― JRN, Saturday, 8 September 2018 04:22 (six years ago) link
grammin’ and stealin’
― calstars, Saturday, 8 September 2018 04:39 (six years ago) link
love instagram
― flopson, Saturday, 8 September 2018 05:52 (six years ago) link
Since realising that I have a complete lack of visual memory / imagination (aphantasia) I've come to a very different understanding of how I use instagram - it IS my visual memory, basically. I look at my own pictures far more than I look at other people's. I also appreciate the simplicity of it.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 8 September 2018 07:00 (six years ago) link
It could be a personal thing, but I think Instagram has developed my visual sense. You start following some things you're really interested in: art galleries, asian and indian antiquities, exotic mediterranean holiday locations, pedigree cats, celebrity crushes etc - and after repeated attempts you start being able instinctively appreciate and critique the visual elements.
― Luna Schlosser, Saturday, 8 September 2018 09:03 (six years ago) link