They probably have been around forever and have purged a shit ton of shit posts
― calstars, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 18:17 (five years ago) link
yes that too
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 18:18 (five years ago) link
An 11-year-old friend of my daughter's has racked up 1,300 followers on TikTok.
― pplains, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 18:20 (five years ago) link
:/
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 20:30 (five years ago) link
A bunch of bots liked one of my posts for some reason. Usernames like kate___allen4568 and no profile pic
― calstars, Sunday, 17 March 2019 20:56 (five years ago) link
Meanwhile in Chernobyl: Instagram influencers flocking to the site of the disaster. pic.twitter.com/LnRukoLirQ— Bruno Zupan (@komacore) June 9, 2019
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 11 June 2019 20:46 (five years ago) link
that's fucking horrifying
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 11 June 2019 21:23 (five years ago) link
Chinese ladies going Instagram crazy in the park. Whooooo!
― calstars, Saturday, 22 June 2019 19:01 (five years ago) link
what content/meme accounts do y’all like
@puppycodes - not as hi-freq as it used to be but seriously GOAT curation, mix of animal memes and gross-horny
@codependantpapi - bit ‘edgy’ at times but sometimes fucking funny. super hi frequency so u have to be sparing with favs
@erowidexperiencevaults - stories are impeccably curated to give the ‘we live in end times’ vibe
― flopson, Saturday, 27 July 2019 05:36 (five years ago) link
@cottagecheesythighs - a shadow of what it used to be but still reliable architecture lols@bebopdiamonddave - abandoned David lee Roth account from ‘13 - primarily photos of him and Sammy in cabo on cinco de Mayo that year
― calstars, Saturday, 27 July 2019 13:47 (five years ago) link
xp I mis-read that as 'code pedant API'.
― just another country (snoball), Saturday, 27 July 2019 13:50 (five years ago) link
i just discovered that www.beckenhamrubbish.com follows me on instagram (if anyone needs a pretext for an amusing own)
(i don't live in beckenham, or even near it except in global terms)
― mark s, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 14:27 (four years ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/ncxkd/
Shameless self promo
― ncxkd, Wednesday, 12 August 2020 00:59 (four years ago) link
• Checked "Posts I've Liked" recently, and holy shit. There were thousands of posts that I had never seen, liked by my account.
• Nothing else in my account seemed hacked. Changed everything up (except username) anyway, including password. Likes still getting added.
• Logged off all devices. Likes still getting added.
• I disabled my account for a day or two. Now, that stopped the likes from happening. But once I came back on again, the likes resumed.
These posts are from all over the world, mostly by "influencer" accounts that, again, I've never heard of. If I'm really bored, I copy and paste "This Instagram user buys their likes from hacked accounts!" over and over again. But that solves nothing.
And yes, I've submitted a support request to Instagram. I'll just hold my breath and stand by the mailbox while I wait for their reply.
― pplains, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 18:21 (three years ago) link
that's pretty weird, certainly not happening with mine. do you think someone else is logged into your account?
― akm, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 18:30 (three years ago) link
If someone is logged in, they haven't fucked with my contact info or changed the password or posted anything under my name or made themselves visible at all.
When I check the log-ins, they're all from me (unless someone in the office is messing with me.)
However, I don't even think it's a human, at least not anymore. The freakin' VOLUME of likes they pour on to these posts is insane. Sixty in the past 6 hours.
One time, in 2015, I used one of those "Best 9 Pics of the Year" things. Other than that, I've never logged in anywhere else with it or linked it to anything.
Really, the only harm is that (a.) it's hard to see the actual "posts I've liked" through all the rest of the crap and (b.) it really looks like I have a strong affinity for big asses and rock-hard abs.
Which, it doesn't matter if it's true or not, ok! That wasn't my point!
― pplains, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 18:39 (three years ago) link
App Redesign suxxxThey put the “shop” button (?) where the activity used to be and moved the three most-used buttons (activity, new post, messages) right next to each other on the home screen
― calstars, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 17:54 (three years ago) link
yeah it's garbage
― Four Seasons Total Manscaping (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 18:44 (three years ago) link
agreed
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 18:44 (three years ago) link
Yup, it's absolutely terrible. Clearly Reels and shopping is all they care about pushing at this point.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 18:46 (three years ago) link
My account doubled the size of the friends i follow overnight. Here's one of them:
https://i.ibb.co/0qW7YV5/Screen-Shot-2021-01-27-at-07-44-03.png
Pisses me off as a user, but makes me really glad I don't spend money to advertise on that crap. All I see are scams, car dealerships from two states over and now because of whatever the hell this shit is, a bunch of ads that are in Cyrillic.
And the advertisers are getting told "Oh, look at the impressions! Look at how many likes and followers they have!" None of it is real.
― pplains, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 13:52 (three years ago) link
i am so stressed out from running my pet lizards instagram account i’m about to have a nervous breakdown pic.twitter.com/gto3amjDLt— summer 🖕 (@heaberald) March 17, 2021
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 18 March 2021 17:36 (three years ago) link
Won't someone think of the lizard community?!!!
― nickn, Thursday, 18 March 2021 18:28 (three years ago) link
I overheard one 24 year old asking another 24 year old what their insta is so I guess this is still a thing
― calstars, Sunday, 20 June 2021 23:03 (three years ago) link
I reinstalled and it’s back to its old position on the bottom right hallelujah
― calstars, Sunday, 1 August 2021 00:25 (three years ago) link
For artist residencies, some of them don’t even ask for your website, just your Instagram
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Sunday, 1 August 2021 23:57 (three years ago) link
i only started using this 3 months ago. i hate it but all the djs are on it and i'm basically using it to plan a party now. glad that the post-a-picture social media platform is another source of work anxiety.
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Monday, 2 August 2021 02:38 (three years ago) link
it's like linkedin for 'creatives' i guess. if linkedin were productive for corporate types, which i'm not sure that it is?
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Monday, 2 August 2021 02:40 (three years ago) link
also it's like, so this is why everyone got really into their phones 10 years ago. i hate doing laptop shit on my phone. give me a motherfucking keyboard and a mouse please thank you.
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Monday, 2 August 2021 02:44 (three years ago) link
Not sure where to post this.. but this is new to me:
Munchausen by Internet: Are chronic illness influencers really faking it?
...A new BBC documentary, Sickness & Lies, explores whether the accusers are right. Are some influencers faking illnesses for fame, money and attention?
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/stories-58093455
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 5 August 2021 14:47 (three years ago) link
Meantime I finally joined this thing, and am using it to post a one-a-day selection of old and new photos, just picking out highlights. I’m at thatonenedguy
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 5 August 2021 15:16 (three years ago) link
my new thing is posting a roundup of recent uploads to my Flickr ("finally posted this trip I took in 2017! LINK IN BIO!"). it's nice because i get a little burst of ppl responding to my pics, which barely happens at all on Flickr itself these days. but thus far it has not succeded into luring any of my circle of friends back onto Flickr. le sigh.
― I honk along darkened Bobo-doors (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 5 August 2021 19:34 (three years ago) link
1998 called
― calstars, Thursday, 5 August 2021 20:55 (three years ago) link
strangely tumblr still seems to have some kind of life.. maybe it's amateur porn or something
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 5 August 2021 21:06 (three years ago) link
color tinted gifs of Downton Abbey IIRC
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Thursday, 5 August 2021 21:07 (three years ago) link
they try to kill it but it just won't die
i love and still use tumblr
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 5 August 2021 21:07 (three years ago) link
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, August 5, 2021 2:06 PM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
they clamped down on porn on tumblr and that is partially what lead to its (partial) demise iirc
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 5 August 2021 21:16 (three years ago) link
https://www.vice.com/en/article/k78kmv/instagram-ban-restore-service-scam
― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 5 August 2021 21:21 (three years ago) link
Ned, I love how you start every caption with "Today's photo."
― pplains, Tuesday, 10 August 2021 17:28 (three years ago) link
http://awesomecanada.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/todaylogo.jpg
Shout it loud and clear!
― I honk along darkened Bobo-doors (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 10 August 2021 17:53 (three years ago) link
former ilxor steacy easton, @pinkmoose4eva, is a very good and prolific photographer
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Thursday, 12 August 2021 01:10 (three years ago) link
It's simple and accurate.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 August 2021 04:16 (three years ago) link
Oh, but unlike Ned Raggett, who's only one-half of that statement!
― pplains, Thursday, 12 August 2021 13:32 (three years ago) link
Now it is true I am simple.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 15 August 2021 03:08 (three years ago) link
You know that's not the half I was referring to.
― pplains, Sunday, 15 August 2021 22:17 (three years ago) link
i think i don’t like instagram
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 28 August 2021 23:34 (three years ago) link
i don’t want my boss checking out pictures of my private lifei don’t need all the smiley pub shotsi like it when people document their walks. i like vintage rock photography. those might be the only types of account i like. mine is terrible. i think i just have less and less interest in spunking content out into the void. ilx is void-ish, but small enough to feel like i kind of know who i’m talking to. other internet spaces are even smaller.
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 28 August 2021 23:39 (three years ago) link
Well, that's kinda why I like my approach -- one old photo a day plus a few words about it.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 29 August 2021 00:01 (three years ago) link
yours is good ned.i dunno i think i find the big traditional social networks less and less.. relevant to me? i like smaller groups.also i love tiktok. only to lurk though.
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 29 August 2021 00:10 (three years ago) link
i use mine as a catalogue of artwork. otherwise it's a time waster and to keep up with other people's art
― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 29 August 2021 00:35 (three years ago) link