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

you can pause the stories by pressing them; probably easier to read long text that way

omg thx

i didnt know that

i didn't know that either -- i just kept wondering how people could expect anyone to read that much text in like 15 seconds

right!?

people who habitually check for your story but never like anything on your tl 🤔

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. :/

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.

I watch every story when i decide to watch stories

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

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.

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.

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.

Not saying my photos are good but i just think its fun

I’m barely in my photos

i'll follow u if you want to post or email me your handle

I’ll email u bc it’s my government name. I’ll follow you as well

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.

it is better than facebook

and the clap is better than syphilis

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

now the favored tool of Russian misinformation

https://www.wired.com/story/how-instagram-became-russian-iras-social-network/

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

tyvm

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?

bots posting to bots

shitbots

They probably have been around forever and have purged a shit ton of shit posts

yes that too

An 11-year-old friend of my daughter's has racked up 1,300 followers on TikTok.

:/

A bunch of bots liked one of my posts for some reason. Usernames like kate___allen4568 and no profile pic

Meanwhile in Chernobyl: Instagram influencers flocking to the site of the disaster. pic.twitter.com/LnRukoLirQ

— Bruno Zupan (@komacore) June 9, 2019

that's fucking horrifying

Chinese ladies going Instagram crazy in the park. Whooooo!

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

@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

xp I mis-read that as 'code pedant API'.

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)

https://www.instagram.com/ncxkd/

Shameless self promo

• 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.

that's pretty weird, certainly not happening with mine. do you think someone else is logged into your account?

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!

App Redesign suxxx
They 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

yeah it's garbage

agreed

Yup, it's absolutely terrible. Clearly Reels and shopping is all they care about pushing at this point.

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.

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

Won't someone think of the lizard community?!!!

I overheard one 24 year old asking another 24 year old what their insta is so I guess this is still a thing