Instagram

Every cunt is an Instagram brand ambassador these days.

Fuck me.

Why isn't @hippy a brand ambassador ? Too much of a ranty drunk? Not enough cleavage ?

Because I can pay my own way for whatever parts I want without having to rub one out to the latest hot shit product and I hate the whole self promotion shite unless it's tongue in cheek*.

*but I am the best, at everything, for realz yo

If anyone wants to send me free shit, please do, but I will not be Instatwatting it. I will probably break it and I will probably tell everyone it's shite, unless it's not, in which case, you must be shit hot and I want more of your stuff.

You break everything tho?!

Not quite. I also have a "well at least I got x years out of that thing before it died" scale.

My £30 ebay Shimano shoes are still going with some Gorilla Glue for example. I should be using the other ones but they won't die. Years of use. Good.

My metal Shimano disc brake pads last less time than my rim brake pads and cost 5x as much. They chew through the £40 rotors unless you're carrying spare pads and double my costs again. Disc brakes are a con (but I love them). Poo.

Rant incoming

Does it ever seem like there are just hundreds of accounts going to great lengths just to post utterly derivative/samey photographs?

I follow an account called 'Hidden Scotland'. Given that I live in Scotland, I was excited about finding new cool places. But a solid 90% of the posts there are a from a tiny selection of places. Glencoe, Glen etive, Glenfinnan viaduct, or Skye. Usually featuring someone in a yellow jacket center shot. Bonus points to find someone skating down a road somewhere with a caption about adventure as if they were just skating along in the middle of nowhere and their car isn't parked up just out of shot.

I know I shouldn't be surprised that Instagram is full of shit but I guess it's just disappointing how something purporting to be so genuine seems so manufactured

I’ve just reported a Joel Olsteen ad on my IG feed. WTAF?!? I’ll delete my profile if I see one more bloody religious ad.

Does anyone know why the fuck I get random bints liking one of my posts, then when I look who they are, there are six pictures of em, normally a selfie of their Arse (arsey?) and full of collagen/silicon?
Is it because I look at porn?

I'm a Luddite, with busy wanking spanners....what can I say.

It’s because Instagram is shit

Make your profile private. You'll still get randoms adding you but you won't get random likes.

FWIW I was getting really sick of the ads, so I've just swapped over to using chrome rather than the app. If you use android you can hit "make homescreen shortcut" in the options, and it will basically make its own window that is separate from chrome. I think this combined with a VPN seems to have blocked all the ads which is a nice bonus, and is just one less invasive bit of facebook that I have to keep installed

Good shout! Probably works with Safari as well if you use a content blocker.

Are ordinary people paying Instagram to have their photos promoted now ? Seem to be getting random people’s shit photos promoted in my stream now.

Sooner someone makes a half way decent photo sharing app/website the better

I've noticed this too, i assumed it was because I report every Ad as 'not relevant' in the vague hopes they'll be unable to work up an ad profile for me.
I assumed id run out of companies, but obviously not, there seems to be a lot people id rather not see.

Let’s all just return to Flickr and pretend 2008-2018 didn’t happen

My explore feed on ‘gram is stolen video after stolen video of people hurting themselves on MTBs to the point where I’ve started reporting them

I've noticed this too, i assumed it was because I report every Ad as 'not relevant' in the vague hopes they'll be unable to work up an ad profile for me.

I alternate with 'appears to often', as adds have jumped up in frequency massively lately. Going to make me spare down the people I'm following to an absolute minimum - can't be arsed with trawling through a load of average photos interspersed with adds every fifth image

flickr is dead

I started a fairly harsh cull today. Magazines/blogs that post multiple times a day with content: cya

flickr has actually just been sold by yahoo to the people who do smugmug so might be making a comeback?

That's what I was referring too. They'll merge them

What is SmugMug like? I have been paying for Flickr for a few years now, I find the lack of a decent search function infuriating, but it stores photographs fairly well.

It has a horrible name so therefore must be shit.

SmugMug has a pretty good reputation.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16888876

Quick skim read of that gives me hope.

First morning scroll with a load of guff removed, much better