Comment on EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy

tearsintherain@leminal.space ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• techwithjake@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not to defend Instagram cause fuck Meta. I’m curious how it would’ve turned out if Meta didn’t buy them way back. Same with WhatsApp. Could they have been great apps now a days instead of deserving of our scourn?

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  • HeavyRaptor@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I remember Instagram when it was new. It was an actually photography app. Of course it had the edgy filters (which ~15 year old me made full use of). But the pictures people posted actually had a bit of effort behind them.

    Then it started becoming another mainstream social media where most pictures were about people’s lunches. I didn’t stick around for it’s final phase of business ads and thots.

    I think it lost the cool factor by the time FB bought it but maybe it would’ve taken longer to become as ad-infested as it is today

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    • techwithjake@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      100% agree. Around for that time too. It’s why I wonder what it could’ve become.

      Ain’t nothing wrong with posting mundane pictures. I mean, look at PixelFed. Same shit happening but no horrible ads, no crappy algo, nobody trying to sell you shit. Just people posting pics.

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      • HeavyRaptor@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        There is nothing inherently wrong about food pictures but I feel like it is a symptom of the focus shifting from trying to take quality pictures to showing off a nice dinner/vacation/car you had to your “friend” group.

        There is a thin line between look at this cool thing and look at how much better my life is then yours. I kinda have a distaste for the second one. (That said I take food pictures all the time but mostly of stuff I made myself)

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