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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five years ago) link
“You gonna ‘Gram that?”
― calstars, Saturday, 26 May 2018 17:38 (five 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 (five years ago) link
Sorry to hear
― calstars, Saturday, 26 May 2018 22:24 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five years ago) link
Instagram seems to be down.
― Ned Trifle X, Monday, 3 September 2018 21:32 (five 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 (five years ago) link
I still don’t understand Instagram
― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Saturday, 8 September 2018 03:38 (five years ago) link
It's a mobile phone application that allows users to gram instantly
― JRN, Saturday, 8 September 2018 04:22 (five years ago) link
grammin’ and stealin’
― calstars, Saturday, 8 September 2018 04:39 (five years ago) link
love instagram
― flopson, Saturday, 8 September 2018 05:52 (five 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 (five 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 (five years ago) link
people who habitually check for your story but never like anything on your tl 🤔
― ||||||||, Sunday, 23 September 2018 12:00 (five years ago) link
extremely rude behaviour
― ||||||||, Sunday, 23 September 2018 12:02 (five years ago) link
I can't really get with the story thing. I had to get someone to show me how they even work a couple of months back (I would've asked my daughters but I don't think I could have dealt with the level of eye-rolling) and I've never posted one. Maybe it's a bit too ephemeral? Or I don't have a story. I just use IG as a semi-social photo archive. The bar is a bit lower than for images I'd post to Flickr and I rarely instantly post from my phone. Also, it's not a public account. I've probably been getting IG wrong for four years now.
― Michael Jones, Sunday, 23 September 2018 13:59 (five years ago) link
i dont do stories but i watch a lot of stories of ppl i followthere is a small trend with a few ppl i follow who turn screen grab of paragraphs of text from news articles/interviews into instagram stories and it needs to STOP put it on insta proper! i can’t read the whole thing in that short amt of time.it’s so stupidalso don’t put up landscape footage bcz it appears sideways, u dummies
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 23 September 2018 21:12 (five years ago) link
you can pause the stories by pressing them; probably easier to read long text that way
― ||||||||, Sunday, 23 September 2018 21:22 (five years ago) link
omg thxi didnt know that
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 23 September 2018 21:32 (five years ago) link
i didn't know that either -- i just kept wondering how people could expect anyone to read that much text in like 15 seconds
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Sunday, 23 September 2018 23:53 (five years ago) link
right!?
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 23 September 2018 23:59 (five years ago) link
I've got someone who doesn't follow me at all but is constantly watching my stories which is even weirder imo. They're actively checking out my profile every day. :/
― Roz, Monday, 24 September 2018 00:04 (five years ago) link
I would normally consider it creepy behaviour but I know this person irl and it's mostly mystifying why they wouldn't just follow me if they're that interested.
― Roz, Monday, 24 September 2018 00:08 (five years ago) link
I watch every story when i decide to watch stories
― Trϵϵship, Monday, 24 September 2018 00:09 (five years ago) link
They all play in a row like youtube. A follower watching ur story everyday just means they are watching stories
Problem is the vast majority of stories are just like people walking their dog, or sharing some interesting looking garbage, or some badly lit shaking video of last night’s dinner
― calstars, Monday, 24 September 2018 00:58 (five years ago) link
I started an instagram account to post short clips of myself playing guitar and singing. The only purpose of it is really to gradually get myself over my aversion to singing for people, which is a complicated childhood thing. I'm not playing any shows or recording anything so I have nothing to promote. It's kind of good for that -- I don't have to get a "perfect take" just a good-enough sounding 30 seconds of a song, and I can post it and get instant reassurance that I sound ok. I like using it also to see friends' music and visual art stuff.
That's about all I find it useful for, I find the visual diary aspect boring. In the iphone era everyone takes nice photos of food and picturesque city streets and hiking trails and stuff and it all becomes very samey.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 24 September 2018 01:25 (five years ago) link
My instagram tried to be more eclectic—i use it to document my experience of the city, strange things i notice or stuff i find visually interesting. I love instagram.
― Trϵϵship, Monday, 24 September 2018 01:33 (five years ago) link
Yeah I will sometimes throw in stuff like that, in part just so that my account's visual impression isn't just a wall of very similar images of me facing the camera with a guitar.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 24 September 2018 01:36 (five years ago) link
Not saying my photos are good but i just think its fun
― Trϵϵship, Monday, 24 September 2018 01:36 (five years ago) link
I’m barely in my photos
i'll follow u if you want to post or email me your handle
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 24 September 2018 01:44 (five years ago) link
I’ll email u bc it’s my government name. I’ll follow you as well
― Trϵϵship, Monday, 24 September 2018 02:00 (five years ago) link
I'm into posting memes, screen captures of Twitter tweets, album covers of the vinyl I'm currently listening to, screen captures of Facebook posts and my dog, sitting in the exact same position next to my desk as he has in all my insta posts.
Still can't get that protein shake endorsement deal though.
― pplains, Monday, 24 September 2018 11:29 (five years ago) link
it is better than facebook
― marcos, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 19:36 (five years ago) link
and the clap is better than syphilis
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 19:41 (five years ago) link
ha! for the time being I am appreciating having a place to share art & some photos and see friends’ art, crafts, & photos without all the other bullshit on fb. ig has its own weird culture though. still I find it less depressing than twitter, tumblr, or fb. tumblr is ghost town, what a sad decline
― marcos, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 20:41 (five years ago) link
now the favored tool of Russian misinformation
https://www.wired.com/story/how-instagram-became-russian-iras-social-network/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 17 December 2018 21:16 (five years ago) link
In a world where people will drive blindfolded into oncoming traffic because of a film they saw this may not top the scale of stupidity. Still, why would anyone want to pay $165 for a creativity workshop by someone who had to pull out of a $500,000 book deal because she couldn't actually write the book? Spoiler: the workshop was a disaster.
http://www.pajiba.com/web_culture/the-case-of-caroline-calloway-and-her-creativity-workshop-tour.php
― large bananas pregnant (ledge), Friday, 18 January 2019 09:42 (five years ago) link
tyvm
― sans lep (sic), Friday, 18 January 2019 10:15 (five years ago) link
what's up w/ accounts that somehow have 15k followers on a meager 40-50 posts of garbage, yet are neither celebrities nor obvious bots? are they just bots?
― marcos, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 18:11 (five years ago) link