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Instagram has turned us against ourselves

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Re: Instagram has turned us against ourselves

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Post by smacktoward »

TACIXAT wrote: post #4

Set your profile to private and stop giving a shit about engagement. If you're selling something, great, make a themed profile and increase your follower count with as many #hashtags as you can cram into that comment section. If you're using it socially, post about your life and chill out on measures of popularity. I do strongly agree with the idea that we need a better way to reach out to our friends. Posting a phot…

The whole point is that these services use psychological tactics to make it hard to "stop giving a shit about engagement." Your brain gets addicted to all the little dopamine hits you get from using them, so when you try to just stop using them, it's a bit like going cold turkey. Your brain has to adjust to not getting that constant dopamine drip-feed anymore.

Re: Instagram has turned us against ourselves

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Post by swlkr »

saurik wrote: post #2

When I click this link I am "turned against myself" by what seems like an automatic history.back(). Is this a metaphor? (edit: A half hour later and it is still doing this for me despite other people seemingly commenting on the content of an article. I am using iOS 10.)

Oh interesting… there shouldn't be anything like that there. In fact, it should work with js disabled entirely, assuming js is the culprit here. For what it's worth, I don't have access to iOS 10, but I did try it on Safari in the latest iOS and had no issue, sorry I can't help more

Re: Instagram has turned us against ourselves

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Post by swlkr »

Apocryphon wrote: post #9
save_ferris wrote: post #3

I feel this way about social media in general. I completely deleted all of my social media profiles about three years ago. A few weeks back, I created an entirely new twitter account because I've been giving more software talks lately and I've noticed that I'm the only speaker without a twitter handle. But I find myself falling into the engagement trap constantly, since I still have a tiny following. In trying to thi…

"I'm already conditioning myself to pursue engagement." We are all brand managers now.

You could say we are all influencers now

Re: Instagram has turned us against ourselves

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Post by tdb7893 »

TACIXAT wrote: post #4

Set your profile to private and stop giving a shit about engagement. If you're selling something, great, make a themed profile and increase your follower count with as many #hashtags as you can cram into that comment section. If you're using it socially, post about your life and chill out on measures of popularity. I do strongly agree with the idea that we need a better way to reach out to our friends. Posting a phot…

Chat apps like Discord are great for groups you actually want to keep in touch with. That's what I use for my friends from college

Re: Instagram has turned us against ourselves

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Post by mkirklions »

save_ferris wrote: post #3

I feel this way about social media in general. I completely deleted all of my social media profiles about three years ago. A few weeks back, I created an entirely new twitter account because I've been giving more software talks lately and I've noticed that I'm the only speaker without a twitter handle. But I find myself falling into the engagement trap constantly, since I still have a tiny following. In trying to thi…

Do you have a website/app/product you promote?

Nothing wrong with keeping your friends/followers happy with an occasional positive statement.

This way you can post your true feelings later in a less popular post.

Re: Instagram has turned us against ourselves

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Post by Raphmedia »

> People are reduced to a single identity

You can have multiple accounts and the Instagram UI makes it easy to switch. You can click the name of the account and a drop down appears. You then click the account you want to use and it immediately switches you without any hassles.

Most people I know (18-28 demographic) have several accounts.

I own a reptile and my main account is reptile posting along with some nature photos taken from the odd times I go on hikes. This account is my "nature photography" account. It's the one I use to enjoy the gamification part of Instagram. I enjoy hunting for likes and adjust the photos I post there based on reception.

The second account is a sh*tposting account that is private and is filled with inside jokes. This account is only followed by close friends.

My third account is my family account. It's filled with family photos and my mom and aunts follow it. This account is also private.

My fourth account is my developer / workplace account and has no photos. It is temporary because it is registered using the corporate email account and when I change jobs, I create it again from scratch.

Re: Instagram has turned us against ourselves

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Post by swlkr »

dpflan wrote: post #18

Did anyone notice the website for this post? The author of this post seems to have created the site too: -- https://streaking.app/about -- https://streaking.app/@sean This idea of tracking streaks is good; is there a meta-service/platform for monitoring "streaks" of "anything"?

Guilty . Yeah that would be cool! The closest I've seen is wip.chat, but something meta that's just for streaks would be great, sign me up as the first user!

Re: Instagram has turned us against ourselves

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Post by cedricium »

dpflan wrote: post #18

Did anyone notice the website for this post? The author of this post seems to have created the site too: -- https://streaking.app/about -- https://streaking.app/@sean This idea of tracking streaks is good; is there a meta-service/platform for monitoring "streaks" of "anything"?

Two big services in the indie-maker space are:

-- Makerlog (free): https://getmakerlog.com/

-- WIP (paid): https://wip.chat/

Both allow you to record what progress you've made while also tracking the number of days in a row you've been delivering.

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