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Re: Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles

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Post by nolok »

near wrote: post #9

They also use meta robots=noimageindex,noarchive on every page without an opt-out which is so incredibly stupid and walled-gardeny for an image sharing site. I wanted to use Flickr instead but nobody else uses Flickr, then I tried making my own image gallery and I learned that browsers do not honor the JPEG rotation EXIF data and I don't want to write my own rotation/cropping code (that and Google completely ignores…

As a viewer (not sharer), I find unsplash to be very enjoyable and not getting in my way

https://unsplash.com/

And then there is also 500px, a bit more controlled but still very nice in my opinion.

Re: Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles

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Post by nolok »

pmlnr wrote: post #40
near wrote: post #9

They also use meta robots=noimageindex,noarchive on every page without an opt-out which is so incredibly stupid and walled-gardeny for an image sharing site. I wanted to use Flickr instead but nobody else uses Flickr, then I tried making my own image gallery and I learned that browsers do not honor the JPEG rotation EXIF data and I don't want to write my own rotation/cropping code (that and Google completely ignores…

I still use Flickr. The only place out there which doesn't want to immediately steal photo rights.

I still maintain that if only Yahoo had any intent to do anything rather than sit around back then, Flickr would have won in the field of photo sharing and photo social media, and it would have been a much better end result for the users.

Re: Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles

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Post by moccachino »

nolok wrote: post #38
moccachino wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Speaking of walled gardens. There is probably no service in this world that I hate more, as a non-user, than Pinterest.

Pinterest manages to do something horribly stupid and kind of abusive that I usually associates with adult sites ads: show you a preview of something that gets your interest, if you click to get access to it put you through a maze of forms and links all promising the result you asked for at the end, and then when you get to it they don't deliver and instead show other stuff you might like but really you don't because…

They have actually had one positive influence on my life. After having dealt with exactly what you described a few times, I learned that I don't need anything that's on Pinterest. If a search results returns a pinterest link, I ignore it. If I can't find it anywhere except that link, it's as good as a dead link so I move on. This can be extended to much of the internet. So much peace now.

Re: Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles

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Post by nolok »

rainonmoon wrote: post #24
bmer wrote: post #15

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Imgur requires you to provide a valid mobile number in order to create an account.

Christ. It's strange to recall Imgur's genesis on Reddit as a simple, lightweight replacement for all the obstacles and mess that came with Imageshack/Photobucket/other popular image galleries at the time. Shame it eventually bloated into the thing it was meant to remedy.

Well it happened in two easy steps: 1. They took VC money, 2. Reddit cut the middleman and offered direct photo sharing.

At that point imgur became less about easy photo sharing on reddit and others, and more about creating its own community.

Re: Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles

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Post by rapnie »

eitland wrote: post #22
jontro wrote: post #13

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Have you tried https://youpic.com/ ?

There's also https://pixelfed.org It is decentralized and open source.

Yes, PixelFed is great. Based on ActivityPub open standard you can self-host your own instance and federate it to the Fediverse.

Re: Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles

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Post by [deleted] »

mattkevan wrote: post #34
near wrote: post #9

They also use meta robots=noimageindex,noarchive on every page without an opt-out which is so incredibly stupid and walled-gardeny for an image sharing site. I wanted to use Flickr instead but nobody else uses Flickr, then I tried making my own image gallery and I learned that browsers do not honor the JPEG rotation EXIF data and I don't want to write my own rotation/cropping code (that and Google completely ignores…

Now that Instagram has been totally Facebooked, I feel there’s a real gap in the market for what Instagram used to be. Just want something simple where I can upload some photos, do a bit of light editing, apply a nice filter and share with friends. And also see a chronological timeline of stuff they’ve posted. No likes, no engagement metrics, no personalisation, no skinner-boxing, no influencers. Well aware this make…

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Re: Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles

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Post by dewey »

nolok wrote: post #42
pmlnr wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I still use Flickr. The only place out there which doesn't want to immediately steal photo rights.

I still maintain that if only Yahoo had any intent to do anything rather than sit around back then, Flickr would have won in the field of photo sharing and photo social media, and it would have been a much better end result for the users.

Now that it's not owned by Yahoo any more but smugmug there's still a shimmer of hope for a revival.

Re: Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles

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Post by [deleted] »

HNLurker2 wrote: post #33
bluesign wrote: post #31

This looks like a result of linkedin scraping case. Although I hate walled gardens, in the age of facial recognition etc, I hate some random scraper have my photos more.

Yes and those annoying Instagram scrapping copy websites which just make a copy of Instagram

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Re: Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles

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Post by pay-to-play »

stevewodil wrote: post #36
mattkevan wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Now that Instagram has been totally Facebooked, I feel there’s a real gap in the market for what Instagram used to be. Just want something simple where I can upload some photos, do a bit of light editing, apply a nice filter and share with friends. And also see a chronological timeline of stuff they’ve posted. No likes, no engagement metrics, no personalisation, no skinner-boxing, no influencers. Well aware this make…

So VSCO?

VSCO costs $40 a month.
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