{"id":29270,"date":"2023-09-16T11:53:33","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T23:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/?p=29270"},"modified":"2023-11-22T08:18:06","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T19:18:06","slug":"revisiting-instagram-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/blogging\/revisiting-instagram-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"REVISITING INSTAGRAM PART 2"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Instagram these days seems to be a site where people mainly post mindless videos, rather than delving into life’s mysteries, so it’s not really me, <\/strong><\/b>but I wondered if I could stick to just posting pictures – after all, one of my hobbies is taking photos of random strangers…<\/strong><\/p>\n

(This is a follow up to my first Instagram post,\u00a0 from just over a week ago – <\/em>https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/art-by-frot\/adventures-into-instagram-part-1\/ )<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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But my picture only experiment didn’t last long, as very soon I became curious to see if Instagramers do politics – I don\u2019t usually dwell on the clown show that is politics, but here in New Zealand we have a puppet selection coming up shortly so I was checking things out…<\/p>\n

Now just in case anyone sees this picture and thinks I support the “green” party – NO I DON’T!, but I suspect my Instagram account would get suspended if I said what I really thought of those morons, so this pic of a green tranny would have to do.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Having an account on Instagram could rapidly become a bit awkward because there are lots of Normies on Instagram, and I tend to get along badly with Normies, because they seem to think I’m wrong all the time…<\/p>\n

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And now for the elephant in the room – can the Instagram feed be seen in chronological order rather than a controlled algorithm based feed? That was the main reason I stopped using Instagram back in 2016 when they stopped the chronological feed.<\/p>\n

I heard that could be changed as of 2022. But it turned out that is only on the mobile app, not on the website. So not much use to me.<\/p>\n

While there are 441 apps for Instagram in Firefox, none give a chronological feed. Most of the extensions are just ways to work around Instagram’s attempts to make it hard to download content.<\/p>\n

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The next elephant in the Instagram room is that it’s really quite hard to find people or groups I have any desire to follow – it may have 1.3 billion active users but there are more w0ket@rds than you can shake a stick at.<\/p>\n

There is lots of content being posted, but I was blown away by just how little questioning of the narratives is occurring on Instagram.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0So I went back and had another look around, but no, I won’t be posting anything more on it, Instagram is not for me…<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n

https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/frot666\/<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

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