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

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This has been causing me a fair bit of inconvenience at work as I quit Instagram last year (decided it was toxic) but still need to research people/trends in my design job.

Guess I'll have to create a fake profile, which in a way will have the opposite of their intended "join the community" action point.

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

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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…

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

There's also https://pixelfed.org

It is decentralized and open source.

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

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How about imgur.com?

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.

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

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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…

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

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

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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…

But pinterest really really wants you to log-in, does it not?

Another entry for the hall of fame is Quora.

Someone should make a bugmenot browser extension...

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

#28

How accurate is the belief that logged-in eyeballs are profitable, but logged-out ones aren't?

No idea, but the parent company follows the same strategy - Facebook also nags you obnoxiously to log in on public pages, but it's not a requirement (probably because it would hurt the many "we-were-too-cheap-to-build-a-proper-website-but-here's-our-Facebook-page" businesses too much).

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

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And so yet another thing Facebook touches turns into garbage. This is from the same company that promises transparency... yet buys up their competition and does this (and shares data between Whatsapp and FB). They really have no moral compass, do they? Name the engineer or product manager who did this. Name and shame.

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

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

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

Never heard of this and love the idea. Thanks for sharing, will check it out.
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