Instagram no longer allows people without an account to view photos on computers

Post by imajoo » Thu, Apr 23, 2020, 11:06 PM UTC

lmilcin wrote: post #116

cosmotic wrote: post #89

“This is to help people view photos in Instagram and understand how to have the best experience on the platform, be part of the community, connecting and interacting with people and the things they love” How does blocking access help people view things? How does blocking access help people understand how to have the best experience? Access is a better experience than access denied. Creating an account and lurking doe…

This is typical marketing-speak. I am becoming temporarily deaf whenever I hear it. Read it the following way: We have a reason to do it but we don't want to tell you so instead we will tell you a little bit of righteously-sounding bullshit so that most of sheep base is satisfied. Yes, that's "sheep", because you are not our customers, our customers are those companies we sell your information and your focus to.

Post by grawprog » Thu, Apr 23, 2020, 11:11 PM UTC

cosmotic wrote: post #89

“This is to help people view photos in Instagram and understand how to have the best experience on the platform, be part of the community, connecting and interacting with people and the things they love” How does blocking access help people view things? How does blocking access help people understand how to have the best experience? Access is a better experience than access denied. Creating an account and lurking doe…

Post by Ididntdothis » Thu, Apr 23, 2020, 11:19 PM UTC

cosmotic wrote: post #89

“This is to help people view photos in Instagram and understand how to have the best experience on the platform, be part of the community, connecting and interacting with people and the things they love” How does blocking access help people view things? How does blocking access help people understand how to have the best experience? Access is a better experience than access denied. Creating an account and lurking doe…

Post by FlyMoreRockets » Thu, Apr 23, 2020, 11:24 PM UTC

Ididntdothis wrote: post #265

cosmotic wrote: post #89

“This is to help people view photos in Instagram and understand how to have the best experience on the platform, be part of the community, connecting and interacting with people and the things they love” How does blocking access help people view things? How does blocking access help people understand how to have the best experience? Access is a better experience than access denied. Creating an account and lurking doe…

This is Doublespeak from “1984”. It’s also often used in politics like naming a tax cut for upper incomes as “Middle class tax relief”.

Post by morphicpro » Thu, Apr 23, 2020, 11:28 PM UTC

sixstringtheory wrote: post #245

morphicpro wrote: post #202

As a photographer, I urge all other passionate photographers to get off of Instagram. It's more important now than ever to be the authority of your own content. I know it's not as fancy but just start by hosting your own simple blog. I made an effort to build my own Instagram like section on my site just to host my own images. It even has a web assembly lib that scales the images client-side so I don't have to deal w…

I've been slowly piecing something like this together for myself using jekyll. I'm not familiar with the tools you're using, but the demo site looks very nice. Good job! Are there other examples of turnkey self-deployed sites like this?