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

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

I reinstalled and it’s back to its old position on the bottom right hallelujah

For artist residencies, some of them don’t even ask for your website, just your Instagram

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.

it's like linkedin for 'creatives' i guess. if linkedin were productive for corporate types, which i'm not sure that it is?

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.

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

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

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.

1998 called

strangely tumblr still seems to have some kind of life.. maybe it's amateur porn or something

color tinted gifs of Downton Abbey IIRC

they try to kill it but it just won't die

i love and still use tumblr

strangely tumblr still seems to have some kind of life.. maybe it's amateur porn or something

― 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

https://www.vice.com/en/article/k78kmv/instagram-ban-restore-service-scam

Ned, I love how you start every caption with "Today's photo."

http://awesomecanada.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/todaylogo.jpg

Shout it loud and clear!

former ilxor steacy easton, @pinkmoose4eva, is a very good and prolific photographer

Ned, I love how you start every caption with "Today's photo."

It's simple and accurate.

Oh, but unlike Ned Raggett, who's only one-half of that statement!

Now it is true I am simple.

You know that's not the half I was referring to.

i think i don’t like instagram

i don’t want my boss checking out pictures of my private life

i don’t need all the smiley pub shots

i 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.

Well, that's kinda why I like my approach -- one old photo a day plus a few words about it.

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.

i use mine as a catalogue of artwork. otherwise it's a time waster and to keep up with other people's art

^
Pocket art gallery

definitely feeling where you're at, Tracer. the stuff-into-the-void model/habit/approach def doesn't feel the same way it did when I started my flickr in 2005. which already was at a different moment than like "hi folks, welcome to my home on the World Wide Web" in 1998. but i'm not at a point of *not* wanting to share some things, in some ways. the flickr posting/archiving cycle is part of my photographic hobby now, even just for the discipline of getting me to process and organize my photos and write down my thoughts on some things... i find that nice in a lot of ways. sometimes it feels like an infinite irrational burden on myself but i think that's just the highs and lows of it being a hobby, and not specific to the internet/social media.

but as much as i'd love to share my hobby with more people and have it spark more conversations, I feel weird receiving friend requests from whole categories of people i meet...

Agree with Tracer and Dr Casino, esp the "infinite irrational burden" + "discipline of process/organize" re: Flickr. Except I don't even write any sort of commentary any more; tbh back when it was a joint account with my ex, I provided 80% of the visual content but she wrote the "copy" :) Also I'm typically Lightrooming/uploading in bed at 11pm and I don't have the energy to do anything more than the most perfunctory naming/tagging/grouping.

IG uploads are generally from the "proper" cameras too, WiFi'd to the phone, and pushed up at the time. Flickr uploads are mostly just an expanded set of the same thing, just 10+ days behind.

As there's no way (AFAIK) to set access levels on yr IG feed (not so with stories), mine had to be private from the get-go (family snaps, now v rare due to TEENS), so there's automatically a small audience for my mix of diaristic and "artistic"; IG contacts are only interested in the former, and the casual Flickr passer-by only sees the latter.

The great common denominator - where Flickr randoms from Austria and Brazil AND people I've known for 20 years all seem moved to say "oh that's nice"... cats. Everyone loves cats.

Mike, everyone loves all your pictures, wherever they are!

Also, Tracer Hand, I like your Instagram account.

What Dr Casino says rings a bell. There is a kind of task of documenting one's own life, photos, words, whatever, which is lonely and may feel a pointless burden, but I think is worth persisting with. Otherwise, as Lawro would say, we might as well pack up and go home.

Oh - we *are* home.

I'm like forks, use it for posting art and following other people in my art groups. I hardly post any social stuff, I'm sure that's 99% down to having a family and no social life lol or time to do all the processing and curating I used to on flickr, but I miss taking that time to make good photos, I feel like the square format and phone only consumption don't encourage that. Maybe that's just old man yelling at cloud.