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To scroll through Instagram today is to parse a series of sponsored posts from brands, recommended Reels from people you don’t follow, and the occasional picture from a friend. (www.theatlantic.com)

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[–] Kultronx@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Divest your attention from these corporations, comrades. This includes regime change propaganda like the Atlantic.

[–] JackFromWisconsin@midwest.social 5 points 2 years ago

Instagram's been given a slow death by Facebook. Logging into my old account, all it is is just videos and sponsored posts. Maybe 1 actual picture.

[–] getkraken@mas.to 4 points 2 years ago

@yogthos Truth!

[–] KelsonV@wandering.shop 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

@yogthos So true. The last few times I've tried to log in, what I'm actually able to see has made it clear there's no point anymore.

[–] donncha@mastodon.ie 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@KelsonV @yogthos there's a better way. Use the following feed. I blogged about it a while back.

https://odd.blog/2022/07/28/the-best-way-to-browse-instagram/

[–] KelsonV@wandering.shop 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@donncha @yogthos That *is* helpful! So annoying that they hide it.

[–] donncha@mastodon.ie 3 points 2 years ago

@KelsonV @yogthos best thing is there are no adverts too! It's amazing more people don't use it.

[–] muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Its a great thing... I just hope people move to the fediverse, and not twitter.

[–] tigerdactyl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

Pixelfed has been refreshing. Sure it’s all strangers but it’s better than ads

[–] neilcar@infosec.exchange 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@yogthos I had planned on moving all my photography away from Instagram and onto Twitter.

Instagram pretty quickly became the lesser of two evils, though. I'm experimenting with Pixelfed but there's not a critical mass of the people I want to share with in the Fediverse...yet.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

I've been using Pixelfed for a little while now, and I find there are a lots of great accounts on there that are worth following nowadays. Also worth noting that you can follow Mastodon accounts as well. Tokyo Camera Club Mastodon has a lot of interesting accounts, for example:

A few accounts I find have great photos are

and shameless plug for my account here :) https://pixelfed.social/yogthos

[–] ram@lemmy.ramram.ink 1 points 1 year ago

Instagram's never appealed to me, but it appeals to me even less now than it ever had before.