Tag: Instagram
The Feed is the Product: Why We Stay in Walled "Gardens", and Why We Might Finally Leave for the Open Social Web
We have known this for years. We have known that the major platforms are bad for our attention, our sleep, our politics, our children, and our sense of reality. And yet here we are, still scrolling. This essay is an attempt to answer two questions: why is leaving so hard, and what does it look like when it finally becomes possible? Let's take the platforms one at a time, because each one has found its own distinctive way to be terrible. Meta is the empire that learned nothing. In 2018, we learne...
Muss man bei instagram sein?
Muss man bei instagram sein, um als Fotograf wirklich gesehen zu werden? Vielleicht, denn da spielt offenbar die Musik, wenn man seine Bekannten aus dem echten Leben "bespaĂen" bzw. erreichen will. Auch scheinen sich viele Fotografen (auch die professionellen) damit abgefunden zu haben, dass man auf instagram prĂ€sent zu sein hat und nehmen zĂ€hneknirschend hin,...
Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 06-01-26
Today is June 1. It is also Monday. With that, I present our first-ever collection of June Pook-Emu Bee links after a brief photography interlude. [caption id="attachment_5496" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] I took this photo on Sunday, May 31, 2026, from Valentino Pier in Red Hook, Brooklyn. The orange boat in the background is the iconic Staten...
Social mediaâs dirty secret: they donât use it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ebMm8stexM "But when you frame it that way, you understand that social media isn't the problem: the extractive profit motive is the problem. And then, banning under-16s is like putting a plaster on a bullet wound. Sure, maybe it helps a bit, but you're still bleeding out. The real question is, how do you stop...
Not Ready For The Camera
Why hasnât video completely killed text-based social media, despite social platforms clearly favoring it? Simple: By its very nature, it excludes voices from the discussion.
metaverse
Keine Angst, es geht nicht um Avatare ohne Beine! Threads has entered the fediverse!!! TL;DR: Ich freue mich, dass Meta diesen Schritt geht und ich zukĂŒnftig vielleicht all meine Freunde im Fediverse Social Web treffen kann, ohne dafĂŒr einen Threads, Facebook oder Instagram Account zu benötigen, ich respektiere aber auch jeden, der anderer Meinung ist...
Threads’ New Terms & Conditions Affects the Fediverse
Threads, Meta's new microblogging platform, is updating its terms to focus on data collection from "Third Party Users".
Let The Internet Be Grimy
Metaâs take on mimicking Twitter feels like it was built for brand safety first, and you donât get fulfilling internet experiences when you build for brand safety first.
Pi-hole Blocklisten
Ich habe mir mal ein paar adlist's fĂŒr mein Pi-hole angelegt und ich dachte mir, ich teile sie mal mit euch. :-) Diverse Dienste von Meta (ohne WhatsApp): https://mapf.net/adlist/adlist_meta.txt Diverse Dienste von Meta (incl. WhatsApp): https://mapf.net/adlist/adlist_meta_wa.txt Reddit: https://mapf.net/adlist/adlist_reddit.txt TikTok: https://mapf.net/adlist/adlist_tiktok.txt Twitter: https://mapf.net/adlist/adlist_twitter.txt Google: https://mapf.net/adlist/adlist_google.txt Microsoft: https://mapf.net/adlist/adlist_microsoft.txt Die Listen haben kein Anspruch auf VollstĂ€ndigkeit und Korrektheit...
Pi-hole Blocklisten
Ich habe mir mal ein paar adlist's fĂŒr mein Pi-hole angelegt und ich dachte mir, ich teile sie mal mit euch. :-) Diverse Dienste von Meta (ohne WhatsApp): https://mapf.net/adlist/adlist_meta.txt Diverse Dienste von Meta (incl. WhatsApp): https://mapf.net/adlist/adlist_meta_wa.txt Reddit: https://mapf.net/adlist/adlist_reddit.txt TikTok: https://mapf.net/adlist/adlist_tiktok.txt Twitter: https://mapf.net/adlist/adlist_twitter.txt Google: https://mapf.net/adlist/adlist_google.txt Microsoft: https://mapf.net/adlist/adlist_microsoft.txt Die Listen haben kein Anspruch auf VollstĂ€ndigkeit und Korrektheit...
You Should Diversify Your Social Media Presence
Last week was insane, hasn't it? Between Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp going down and Twitch's source code getting leaked online, it's a good reminder that all of the content that we create could be gone in an instant. If that happens, what then? The Facebook one kind of shook me a little bit personally. I have so much...
Tracking Instagram Hashtag Popularity
Tracking Instagram hashtag popularity over time using a Python and Selenium scraper, with results pushed into Elasticsearch and visualized in Kibana.
Authenticating With Instagram Without The Browser
Logging into Instagram from a headless Python script using Selenium to bypass the browser-based OAuth flow when the official API isn't an option.