#indieweb 2021-03-03

2021-03-03 UTC
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jacky Ruxton: I'd be curious to learn of something like this
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aaronpk wait what, instagram took away likes?
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aaronpk i can't see cause my instagram account is still locked šŸ˜­
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Ruxton I still see likes and can make likes
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aaronpk from what i'm reading the number of likes on other peoples posts are no longer visible
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aaronpk but you can still see the number on your own posts
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jacky oh I remember this coming out
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Ruxton yeah that came out well over a year ago
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aaronpk wow my account is really gone https://www.instagram.com/aaronpk
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aaronpk instagram--
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Loqi instagram has -2 karma in this channel over the last year (-4 in all channels)
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[snarfed] šŸ˜¢ so sorry if it was the browser extension. iā€™m working on polling frequency tiers now
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aaronpk it's still in "we'll let you know after we review" status when i'm logged in
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aaronpk i haven't done anything else with my account, i haven't posted in over a month and barely comment, so i'm almost certainly it was because all my computers were hammering the site with my session cookie
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aaronpk https://twitter.com/chrismessina/status/1366925110423134208
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@chrismessina Go check out the "Did Instagram" trend and if you work in tech, realize how much of a bubble/echo chamber you exist in, as Instagram apparently has expanded the removal of likes and people are *just now* realizing this and are shocked/horrorified/crying. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EvhLJLBVoAAyIxk.jpg (twitter.com/_/status/1366925110423134208)
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aaronpk https://twitter.com/instagram/status/1366950136325107714
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@instagram So Instagram ...did not mean to hide likes for everyone šŸ˜¬ https://twitter.com/InstagramComms/status/1366940001422831616 (twitter.com/_/status/1366950136325107714)
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aaronpk Ok I think Instagram officially deactivated my account for violating the terms
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aaronpk I am now trying to appeal but this is not a clear process
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aaronpk omfg
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aaronpk "we need you to confirm that you own this account. Please reply to this message and send us a photo of yourself holding a hand-written copy of the code below"
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petermolnar aaronpk: don't get your hopes too high, unless you make enough noise online that catches the attention of IG
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GWG That's a good motivation for a silo quit, when the silo quits you
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aaronpk your own website
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aaronpk i'm not a big fan of replicating silos with a single open source alternative, we need to *actually* decentralize it
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Loqi open source, ActivityPub... it seems like this conversation is more appropriate for #indieweb-dev
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aaronpk i mean my website works perfectly fine as an instagram alternative
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GWG aaronpk: We need to iterate on it on the reader and discovery side
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GWG I think many of us have photo feeds on our site
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[Murray] out of interest, for those who have had photo feeds running for a while, what size on disk do your photos now take up (i.e. if you run an Instagram-like feed on your site, I'm interesting to know how much space that takes)
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[Murray] for context: I'm currently in the process of moving at least one workflow off Instagram and onto my site, but I'm worried about disk space šŸ˜„
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aaronpk i don't have a quick way to find just the photos, but the storage of everything on my site including videos is 14gb
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GWG I could always move the photos to S3 or something like that
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[Murray] well, I imagine video is a decent chunk of that but... ouch šŸ˜¬
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aaronpk eh disk space is cheap
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sknebel and thousands of map images and ... :D
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sknebel (even if some of those are 0 bytes somehow)
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aaronpk oh yeah all the maps too
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aaronpk if i exclude mp4 it looks like 2.5gb from 2020
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[Murray] I have 5GB of disk space max and already somehow hitting half of that šŸ˜…
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[Murray] looking at available upgrades, I could double that without feeling it, but then apparently the next jump is unlimited (great!) for waaay more money than I would be comfortable with haha
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jacky ^
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jacky tbh
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jacky I think it's nigh time for someone with an experience in UX as their primary role to kinda investigate that
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petermolnar > That's a good motivation for a silo quit, when the silo quits you - (rhyming to "in communist russia") In capitalist america, one doesn't quit a silo, the silo quits you?
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jacky lmfaoo
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[chrisaldrich]1 This could be an interesting feature for a personal website/blog. A generator that takes pre-existing taxonomies from one's website and suggests combinations of them as potential writing prompts when one has writer's block. https://hyp.is/s-6ugHxHEeuKTj9NWITRTQ/www.vox.com/culture/22299017/sexy-times-with-wangxian-ao3-archive-of-our-own-tagging-censorship-abuse
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[KevinMarks] for callum https://3dbook.xyz/
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[KevinMarks] https://twitter.com/yoda/status/1367229798611890179?s=20
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@yoda you will know that a new technology, app, whatever is real and true and has potential when there are nice people around to answer your questions and guide you through a process for the first time without judgement. (twitter.com/_/status/1367229798611890179)
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