Category: Mastodon.Social

I like Flickr better than Instagram, but I post more often on Instagram…

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.

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@brion I think that got started because quantity is so much easier to measure than …

@brion I think that got started because quantity is so much easier to measure than quality. But ultimately it’s like the joke about looking for your keys where the light’s better instead of looking where you dropped them.

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@brion Actually I think a *lot* of problems are the result of measuring what’s easy to measure instead of what’s useful to measure, including economics and politics.

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Thinking about social media timelines, cloud storage for digital photos, contextual identity, global newsfeeds vs …

Thinking about social media timelines, cloud storage for digital photos, contextual identity, global newsfeeds vs topic-based forums, and the spread of hoaxes alongside more trustworthy information…

It’s ALL about information overload. And what tools you use to organize, curate and filter it. And who those tools benefit.

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Got my new phone. Set up the apps I need – those I use all …

Got my new phone. Set up the apps I need – those I use all the time & those I want to have on hand when I need them. Now I’m trying to decide on the optional stuff like which image editors…and how many social media apps?

I want to discourage myself from getting caught in a feed reading loop & encourage myself to either be creative with the phone or put it down. So far Mastodon, Flickr & WordPress are in, plus Twitter Lite for one topic-specific account.

Let’s see how this works!

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