Odd thoughts:
I like Flickr better than Instagram, but I post more often on Instagram than on Flickr. Because I like Flickr more, I feel like I should take my time & curate my photos better.
But I also end up posting many at a time on Flickr, and single photos on Instagram. Because I don’t feel like I’m spamming if I post 20 pics to Flickr, but I do if I post that many to Instagram.
Instagram does have a multi-photo post mode, but really what you’re doing is posting a stack. Only the cover photo appears in timelines or searches. The whole stack shares one description, one set of tags, and only ever appears as a unit.
Compare to Flickr, where you can post 10 pictures with their own descriptions & tags, and group them into an album together. People (including you) can find any individual photo through searching & follow it to the album if they want.
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@brion Yeah, Flickr has enough searchability (and people looking) that it’s still partly about buildng the long tail. Here’s my gallery, check out what you want to see.
Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, even Mastodon are so much about the moment, to the point that looking at any sort of history feels like an accident. Or stalking.