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[–] EdibleFriend 55 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I mean... It is pretty fucking weird to do that when you're sitting right behind the dude and not even say anything?

[–] cashews_best_nut 19 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Maybe it's a Zoomer thing? I don't even see the point in Instagram. I had an account for a bit but realised I had nothing to photograph

[–] glimse 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

My Instagram is 100% pictures of animals. Then once in awhile I'll scroll back and look at all the cute pups I've met over the years.

I can't stand how many ads are on there so I never browse and have no idea how other people use it..

[–] cashews_best_nut 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's a great idea! I often feed starlings bites of my Greggs baguette. I never thought I could photograph them for Instagram. 😀🐦

[–] glimse 1 points 10 months ago

I love animals and I love taking pictures so when Instagram started I thought it'd be a good place to put them. It's easy to sort photos from a real camera but I find it tedious to do on a phone

[–] effward 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

But, like, can't you just use Google photos or something comparable for that?

[–] mriormro 4 points 10 months ago

People get small dopamine hits when they see their social media posts get points.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Like Mike Elgan's "Nicebook".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I mean… if you never take photos or don’t like looking at them, it’s not surprising you don’t have a use for it or pixelfed.

[–] cashews_best_nut 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

pixelfed

Excuse me? What's this? Federated Flickr/Instagram?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yes, it’s fantastic: https://pixelfed.social

Here’s the dev’s links:

https://mastodon.social/@dansup

https://pixelfed.social/dansup

I can lose hours just browsing everyone’s nature photography.

If you’re on iOS, decent apps for it are Tusker and Vernissage… and maybe Mona or Ivory, but they aren’t built for it so the compatibility has a snag here and there.

Tusker uses a traditional Mastodon interface, while Vernissage is minimal-first with a main view of just photos with nothing else.

[–] glimse 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Also I think Instagram is primarily used by millennials

[–] wsweg 2 points 10 months ago

Younger millennials and older gen z (age range of 20s-30s)

[–] superduperenigma 46 points 10 months ago (3 children)

If the genders were reversed and it was a dude peeking over some random girl in his class' shoulder to get her insta without talking to her everyone would rightly be calling him an incel creep.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago

Hmm? The post doesn’t mention any shoulder surfing. Sounds like she searched the guys name but couldn’t view his photos without following due to his privacy settings.

[–] Mango 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wrongly.

Being interested in the opposite sex is no worse than being interested in the same sex.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Do we live on the same planet?

[–] Mango 1 points 10 months ago

Does your planet have an Ohio and Pokemon games?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

ig doesnt notify for a denied request. so was op refreshing the page until it updated?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

I think her post implies she watched him deny it on his phone.

[–] xc2215x 7 points 10 months ago

This made me laugh.