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

add me 'bsdf'

How in the fuck. I was just going to start this thread.

trebaker. And is there any easy way to look at feeds through a browser on my computer and not on my mobile?

http://instagram.heroku.com is the first web based client but it's not very user friendly

You have some interesting people following you.

But cool. That client was helpful enough.

http://instagram.heroku.com/users/786729

is there an app that makes your photos look like they were taken with a rolleicord iv yet?

I wish there was an app that made your photos look like they were taken by someone who can't take photos

I put that Instagram thing on my phone but then realised it was this whole 'social network' thing and quickly lost interest.

You don't have to share or follow anyone.

You don't? Neato.

Sharing and following is lame imo :)

I was using it as just another lens app before I realized that there was a whole nother thing behind it.

xp but then the only way to explore is to look at the Popular pix page which is pretty terrible imo

i have an older ipod touch that doesn't have a camera. can instagram be used to apply filters to photos that are on your device but weren't taken with it?

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.

thanks dude!

wait what does instagram 'do' that is worth one billion dollars

it puts...a filter on a photo? and lots of people use it? and that is worth one billion dollars?

its free in the app store no one tell zuck

is facebook gonna monetize hipsters?

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 am (surprise surprise) enbb and mostly post pictures of (surprise surprise) my dog.

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

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.

Exactly my thoughts.

iphone camera (at least anything before the 4S) kinda sucks

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

wasn't there another identical thing called hipstamatic?

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.

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

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

instagram's "value" such as it is is in the social network aspect, not the filter aspect

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

yeah I guess it makes more sense in that context

I have never used it so I just see the pics *on* fb

ha guessing you all are not instagram users lol xp

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

xp joe otm

i mean that being said 1 billion dollars is hilarious

i want a billion dollars

have you considered making an 'app'

brb making an app

wasn't there another identical thing called hipstamatic?

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.

if i had one the mega millions i would've bought scoopsnoodle for $1 million

won*

so they paid like 35 bucks per user

still smh

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

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

they paid $1 per photograph too

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

I doubt it will shock anyone but I was banned from Insta for arguing with a troll. I assume they abused the report function somehow but the process is completely opaque, and I’ve had trolls level the most hateful racist etc garbage against me and reported them with no effect. Just more evidence to me of how toxic Insta is, they seem to go out of their way to reward the bad actors. (At least it’s not Reddit where the bad actors are obviously running most of the show now.)

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CfMPGWklH1b/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

I feel like this one perfectly encapsulates the impossible blandness of these reels. Like I feel like the people who made this are pod people.

is there another social app that does what og ig did? just one pic and no videos/ads? i just get angry when i open the ig app now, what a mess

Youtube/Instagram seem to compete to see who can more aggressively ignore the "this doesn't interest me" function - any engagement is engagement so here are more self-help/rise and grind/dead-eyed soulless dance posts for you.

I only use TikTok to share animal videos with friends and it seems to still be pretty functional on that point.

There was a couple that posted dances about the husband's porn addiction that were incredible, he looked like he was in a proof of life hostage video. Then I saw in the comments that she was running classes on overcoming your partner's porn addiction so it was all just part of a grift that can't be making more than $20 a month.

it’s kind of incredible that IG now has three different mechanisms for posting, each with its own name, in an effort to keep up with tiktok, which sensibly has just one

if your app has “i’m not interested in this” buttons your app’s algo is not good enough imo (or your investors are pushing you too far down the monetisation funnel)

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CfMPGWklH1b/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y🕸=

I feel like this one perfectly encapsulates the impossible blandness of these reels. Like I feel like the people who made this are pod people.

https://www.instagram.com/lanasator/?hl=en

One of my favorite accounts, a photographer who documents buildings and ruins in the former Soviet Union. I've seen gofundme posts about legal assistance for someone in prison in Albania and thought it was her friend... it's actually the photographer. The gofundme was shut down because of the sanctions against Russia but apparently a youtuber is helping at least.

i've gone very briefly, very minor viral twice over the past month with something like 3500 accounts hit for two random short reels of pottery. no idea why those are the ones that clicked!

that recently happened to me too but i think it was all fake. 1700 accounts apparently saw me reading a poem, and 12 accounts "liked" it. no one's that bad at poetry, so i figured some sort of next-gen spam content farm accidentally targeted me for views

but yours have hundreds of "likes", so that seems real! :) pot it up!

it's weird. pointless dopamine hits over unfinished work.

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)

i like to be liked like everyone else but it's like if i flawlessly whistled the andy griffith theme song on a crowded bus and then everyone applauded. yes that's nice but it don't really help me in any way.

🔥🔥🔥 promote it on @onlygriffiththings

i got 82 opiebucks to spend on amplification

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

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

then she asked where i lived and if she could visit and that's how your mother and I first met..

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.

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

I can't even imagine how bad an Albanian jail is, hope they're released shortly

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.

I think the new Australian PM is from there.

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 …

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.

Thanks!

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.

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.

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.

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/

Why is this house "cottage core" where I live it's just "urbex" (also run its course on Instagram)?

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.

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.

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

this is why i don't leave the house

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.

so nice that there's an app solely dedicated to showing you videos of "comic" dialogues where one person plays all the parts

Oh, there's more than just one app for that.

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.

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.

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

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

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!

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.

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.

Maybe make sure your software isn’t in need of an update? Usually something like that is the cause.

Evan, thanks! I’ll give that a shot.

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.