Instagram’s transformation into QVC is now complete and absolute. Instagram is dead — or at least the Instagram I knew and loved is dead. It is no longer part of my photographic journey.
Instead he posts to his photo blog.
@manton This makes perfect sense. I headed over there to try and scroll and the fact that every other post was an ad had me bailing almost immediately. This is a bummer, because some communities I want to follow do their primary interacting there - especially cosplay.
@KimberlyHirsh @manton Per the advice of @patrickrhone I’ve removed it from my phone and will only use it via the web. No posting but essentially as a “reader” for feeds that are not available anywhere else.
This reduces the frequency of visits and helps me maintain a targeted, intentional use of the platform. Mostly it’s a case of finding things as a launching point for other parts of the web.
@SimonWoods @patrickrhone This is what I recently did for Reddit, too. The website is constantly asking me to open in the app, though. So frustrating.
@SimonWoods @manton @patrickrhone Almost all of my social media interactions I do through the browser. I have noticed that my cosplay account shows ads more infrequently than my other accounts.
@pratik I saw your post briefly but not sure what happened with it… This post from a couple years ago was made in Sunlit and that’s what it’s supposed to look like. It’s designed to be multiple groups of thumbnails, essentially.
@pcora @pratik If a photoblog specific theme exsisted, or comes about, I would most likely drop Glass and get a second Mb blog and that’s saying a lot because i love Glass.
@pratik I agree! I’d love to have more themes for photo blogs. There are more options for the Photos page now via plug-ins, but not much for the home page.
@otaviocc That would fit nicely with something we’ve been talking about recently: to add an option for feeds to import to your blog instead of just showing up in the timeline.
