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0 pointsjakear3y ago0 comments

> People need to stop pointing the camera at themselves. The world is so much more beautiful.

Uh what? People don't need to do anything. You might think the world is prettier without all the divas in it, and I might be of the same opinion. Doesn't mean anyone else needs to change. Just follow the accounts you like, mute the ones you don't but 'need' to follow (friends, etc.)

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tomc19853y ago

With ads every other or third post or so, you don't get nearly as much control over your feed as you think.

> Just follow the accounts you like, mute the ones you don't but 'need' to follow (friends, etc.)

If I had a penny for every time someone here casually drops such milquetoast advice (that DOESNT WORK), I'd be rich.

jakearOP3y ago

Goalposts drifting faster than my kayak in a windstorm.

First you say there's too many faces, I give you an easy solution. Now you say there's too many ads, I say to make a script that pulls in latest images from a set of accounts using Instagram's Basic Display API.

Next you'll probably say you don't want to do any actual work, but also won't pay someone else to do work, in which case I have no solutions.

tomc19853y ago

My point is that a casual "just change your feed settings," answer, which signals an implicit approval for a shitty status quo, doesn't work.

What I want is for people to change. For society to stop navel-gazing. For people to get over themselves. It's idealistic, for sure. But I am an idealist.

And for the record, those ads are going to show you more obnoxiously smiley faces, but this time they're hawking some bullshit product on top of it. So unless you can make the ads go away, whatever you set your feed to won't matter.

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0 pointsjakear3y ago0 comments

> People need to stop pointing the camera at themselves. The world is so much more beautiful.

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tomc19853y ago

With ads every other or third post or so, you don't get nearly as much control over your feed as you think.

> Just follow the accounts you like, mute the ones you don't but 'need' to follow (friends, etc.)

If I had a penny for every time someone here casually drops such milquetoast advice (that DOESNT WORK), I'd be rich.

jakearOP3y ago

Goalposts drifting faster than my kayak in a windstorm.

Next you'll probably say you don't want to do any actual work, but also won't pay someone else to do work, in which case I have no solutions.

tomc19853y ago

My point is that a casual "just change your feed settings," answer, which signals an implicit approval for a shitty status quo, doesn't work.

What I want is for people to change. For society to stop navel-gazing. For people to get over themselves. It's idealistic, for sure. But I am an idealist.

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