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- Just the Links … FOURTH ShittyRigs is an Instagram account 4 that is fascinating . I mean it’s fascinating if you’re interested in how film and tv are made. It’s …
- What Does it Mean to be Friends? … I present and act differently on LinkedIn than I do on Reddit than I do on Instagram than I do on Metafilter than I do on AVForums than …
- Fine, Social Networks; Are you in? … Threads, owned by Meta/Facebook, bootstrapped from Instagram, and with hundreds of millions of users Mastodon, a decentralized open-source social network built on an open protocol called …
- Kill Your Gods … 11] . (Look, I’m not saying it’s a coincidence that Threads and Instagram are both headed by Meta’s Adam Mosseri, I’m just pointing out a …
- The Great Social Network Heist … Bookwyrm , a not-goodreads; Pixelfed , a not-Instagram; Lemmy , a not-Reddit; Otter , a not-Pinterest; PeerTube , a not-YouTube This is anecdata: I don’t use any …
- How It’s Made; Blocking is Healthy, Actually … Instagram’s help center, for example, is quite (?) clear on what happens when you block someone on Instagram [16] . It says nothing about using that blocking signal . Instagram …
- Not Up and To The Right; Just Deeper, Really; Better Wording Faster; Tools for Remembering; A Centaur for Caring?; Of Course They're Art … You know that you are in one space and not the other, and perhaps one of the smartest (sigh) things Facebook did was to not integrate Instagram and …
- Sudo Do Me An Ethical Art; Twitter Imploding Was Good, Actually … Does anyone even remember when Instagram, Facebook and Twitter co-operated until it made more sense financially for them not to? The implosion of Twitter was an opportunity …
- Free-range, Organic, and Natural; The Original Promise … But you want to get to an audience right now, what are your choices? Advertising? Facebook advertising, Instagram advertising? Starting a newsletter, going down a content arms race …
- Your Timeline needs a DJ; Enough … systems that provide access to scads of time-ordered data like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and so on is the argument about the algorithm , which is broadly to say …
- The Careless Conversation; The Shape of Things … What makes an instagram photos is more than just the image data. But when you cross-post an Instagram photo to Facebook (which is practically intra-platform), the …
- Just Because We Can Doesn't (Necessarily) Mean We Should: Mastodon and Social Networks Edition … You'll note I'm not including Tiktok or Instagram or even YouTube -- I think in this instance, because those platforms aren't text-based and aren't …
- It's not a place, it's what's in-between; Twitter will be unbundled … thing (gosh I am in so many Slacks already, both social and professional). Instagram is its own thing (though increasingly a shitty mall run by Facebook where I …
- What is it like to be a PlayStation, Netflix/Everyone Else Edition … that some products aren't products, they're just features . Or another way: Instagram can try and match TikTok feature for feature, but if it's a different …
- What is it like to be a PlayStation: Software Defined Brands; Gerrymandering Autocorrect … It could show up in Instagram, it could show up in Twitch, it could show up in YouTube and so on. It could, like I mentioned yesterday, show …
- What Is It Like To Be A PlayStation? … Would it be weird if PlayStation had snapped up Instagram? (I mean yes, at the time) Would it be weird if PlayStation just went and bought Flickr ? Arguably …
- Be not careless with your users' data … I was on Instagram, because I am old, and I still look at Instagram when I feel like seeing pictures from my friends. It's mainly friends -- not …
- Dan Hon is Away, Still … your app idea is something marginally more complicated than a soundboard or an Instagram clone (or, *even* an Instragam clone) or you're having delusions of grandeur and …
- The Ridiculously Complex, Subtle and Glorious Dynamic Context of Human Relationships … You want to figure out social software? You want Close Friends or whatever on Instagram or whatever it's called on Twitter now? You go figure out the …
- Eukaryotes … But we knew that, right? Now that I'm thinking of eukayrotes as an analogy to apps -- discrete, user-facing, applications like, say, Instagram. Or TikTok. Or whatever …
- Another Place … app like Instagram that was threatened by TikTok so went and ate a bit of TikTok (figuratively, it just reproduced the functionality) and now Instagram has a mini …
- Okay, just hear me out … This led to the realization that using Instagram these days (and other feed-based, recommendation-making applications) feels claustrophobic and stifling, just because of the ratio of "content …
- Do Not Recommend … this feeling also applies to my current Instagram experience, which right now is like this: See 1 or 2 posts from my friends See a post from a …
- Vestigial; Unions; Weird; and Snow Crashing - Chapter 15, part 2 … Technology Review, April 9, 2021 ↩︎ FBI used facial recognition to identify a Capitol rioter from his girlfriend’s Instagram posts , The Verge, April 21, 2021 ↩︎ This Site Published …
- Irritated About Content Moderation; A Few Small Things … years or so. Evans lists a number of examples of changing the model : Instagram doesn't have links Clubhouse doesn't have replies, quotes or screenshots Email newsletters …
- No Such Thing As A Blank Slate … a good 70 terabytes of data were scraped from Parler, and around the same time, open source intelligence outfit Bellingcat were busy archiving data from Twitter, Instagram, Facebook …
- *gestures at the world* … SOME OF THEM ARE GOING TO COLLEGE NOW!), but also people getting on Instagram or whatever and just reading bedtime stories. The internet gets a lot of shit …
- The ATCR Boundary … imagine that the leaders at youtube, twitter, facebook, and instagram got together and decided that they would all stop suggesting/promoting content via algorithmic feeds for the next …
- 1:9:90 … There are, I bet, more Instagram users than Wordpress accounts. So: most people don’t post. Maybe fewer people are posting, too. Sharing is one way of combating …
- Do you have WiFi? / Liars are bad … Mosseri (who I should point out was Head of Newsfeed before his current role of Head of Instagram) appears to genuinely not understand the difference between a) a …
- The One With The Uneven Mid-Season Two-Parter … no, i don’t want to do that, that feels stupendously hipstery. * Instagram is definitely a glossy Condé Nast magazine like Vogue and both the content and ads …
- Acquisition and ingest mode, dial for a wide spread … I recently realized (yet another) thing I dislike about "algorithmic" feeds like Facebook's newsfeed and Instagram's feed. I'm singling those two out because they're …
- Filtered for wide spread, low accuracy … But the twist is that Casey Newton, a reporter for The Verge, reported Instagram co-founder and CTO Mike Krieger refuting the allegation[11], saying that "likes don …
- Change will continue to accelerate until morale improves … I deleted Twitter, Instagram, Facebook. Turned off all the email accounts. Turned off my *phone*. And I mean *actually* turned it off - not just silent-and-airplane mode …
- Oh, I Don't Know, Just Everything; A Bit About Brand Advertising Again … A Problem for Forever 21. [0] How many saw Land Rover Adventuregram on Instagram? via Denise Wilton [1] F21 Thread Screen — BREAKFAST [2] BREAKFAST -- So I guess that …
- Everything … structures of content on other peoples' networks" by commissioning a digital magazine for Instagram. I'll get to the point, though. Ellis says this: "Used to be that …
- Episode Two Hundred and Eight: … This was also the week that Layout, by Instagram came out[1], to which my only response is: if you choose a name for your product and want …
- Seeing Like LIDAR; Hearing Like Superman; Researching Like ResearchKit … 2.0 Hearing Like Superman Matt Haughey remarked on Twitter that if you invoke Andrew WK in an Instagram comment feed, Andrew WK will show up[1]. To …
- "Everybody"; The Webb Scale; Algorithms … in whilst you scroll down the page, so, yay?) [1] Paul Mison on Instagram: “algorithm” -- 9:10pm. And tomorrow, I think I'll write about shoes that talk …
- The Starship Enterprise; How Do You Solve A Problem Like Digital? … your app idea is something marginally more complicated than a soundboard or an Instagram clone (or, *even* an Instragam clone) or you're having delusions of grandeur and …
- How Are You?; Built It And They Will...; In The Gaps … I have a public Twitter account, a public Instagram account and I can't remember if my Foursquare, er, Swarm account is public or not. Sometimes my posts …
- The Exoskeleton of the Internet; The Web Created the Modern Camera; Data Has Replaced God … And then Facebook itself was taught about what it meant to share photos with Instagram, one of the waves of mobile-first companies that really understood what capturing …
- The Material (1) … That's not even something like the Exploratorium helping people understand what an Instagram is. Whilst I acknowledge that this is the worse case of armchair punditing having …
- Probationary Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.; The Blog Unbundled; A World of Connected Objects … Tumblr and Instagram took over for photoblogs. And those long personal essay/personal rant posts that people would write every once in a while — those are happening here …
- Recurring; Better, But Not Best … Also, it wasn't clear exactly what I was missing and, how should I say, in a world of Instagram and Facebook and iCloud Photo Streams and now …
- Yet More Smarts; The Continued Tyranny; A Different Kind Of Overload … Sure, I don't find out, second by second, if someone has faved or retweeted one of my tweets or if someone has hearted one of my instagrams …
- On Design; New Aesthetic Zeitgeist Bingo; Odds … I had to take a drink because they used the word "journey", but at least Moves isn't being shut down and is being run, like Instagram and …
- Disbanded; The Responsive OS … one would think that the dominant metaphor of the day would be more like a "platform") companies like Tesla, Amazon and Instagram. There's a bit of cherry …
- Living In An Immaterial World; Snow Crashing 4; Odds … The easy version of this future is that Facebook continues to operate Oculus as a separate concern a la Instagram or WhatsApp and finds some sort of way …
- Snow Crashing; danah boyd; Facebook and Oculus Rift … strategy to build more mobile apps and with the acquisition of WhatsApp alongside Instagram it seems clear to me (without my work hat on) that Facebook's goal …
- Structure; Humble, Direct and Curiously Cautious; The Scale Of Things, Risks … 110 - PlayStation Network users 100 - Minecraft registered accounts 81 - Population of Germany 75 - Instagram daily active users 65 - Steam monthly active users 63 - Population of the United Kingdom …
- My Followers, Friends and Social Objects … And then, poof, ten years later, we have Facebook and Twitter and Instagram and Snapchat and Google Plus and and and. Words mean things. Okay, that's a …
