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
bots posting to bots
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 18:15 (five years ago) link
shitbots
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 (four years ago) link
that's fucking horrifying
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 11 June 2019 21:23 (four years ago) link
Chinese ladies going Instagram crazy in the park. Whooooo!
― calstars, Saturday, 22 June 2019 19:01 (four 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 (four 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 (four years ago) link
xp I mis-read that as 'code pedant API'.
― just another country (snoball), Saturday, 27 July 2019 13:50 (four 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 (three 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 (two 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 (two 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 (two 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 (two 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 (two 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 (two 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 (two 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 (two 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 (two years ago) link