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Tag: Instagram

  • LINK: What Even Is Instagram Now?

    Wired:

    People I care about? My Instagram feed has long been chock-full of professional influencers hawking the latest fast-fashion trends, home cooks sharing their high-protein recipes, and random comedians doing stand-up bits. My actual friends are buried under a mountain of sponcon and memed-to-death dross.

    By piling these new features on top of the old ones, Instagram is trying to make the app feel chummy and personal again. But it’s too far gone from that ideal, and the attempt to shift the feed’s focus from influencers to your IRL friends just feels awkward, and ultimately unconvincing.

    I’ve been adding to Stories mainly for a long time, but it’s been a minute since I posted any photography there. It’s well established that photography is the last thing they care about over at Meta. I have a much longer rant about Meta, but I suspect you’ve heard it from much smarter people.

  • Cleaning the Social Media Gutter

    I’m noticing that quite a few people that view my stories on Instagram are people that I don’t know, and want nothing to do with. I started to go through my list of followers, and I quickly realized that leaving my account inactive for a long period of time might have been a mistake. A quick note about weeding the garden: Instagram doesn’t really make it easy, especially on the desktop version. It’s just a small scroll box in the center of the page. I really would like a way to bulk remove/block people. That should be a no-brainer.

    Yes, I realize there are 3rd party solutions that may allow you to do this, the point is that IG should allow you to do this. I’m going to look for those solutions so that I don’t have to waste more time in the weeds than necessary.