Category: Fediverse

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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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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Yes, the screen is polarized diagonally! I can take landscape photos without taking my sunglasses off! 😎

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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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In other news: phone’s dead. Dug out an old S4 & put LineageOS on it as a temp. Running smoothly so far…

Took me a second to realize a pole was blocking the sign & it wasn’t advertising “crap metal pickup” and “rash pickup.”

Not a fan of screen-based menus above the fast food counter that *change* while you’re trying to read them.

It’s the IRL equivalent of a web carousel, only you can’t even click to freeze it.

“‘We’ve just added more than 1,100 new items to the OED,’ said the lexicographer wordily.”

http://public.oed.com/the-oed-today/recent-updates-to-the-oed/january-2018-update/new-words-notes-january-2018/

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Like/favorite: signal to author
Bookmark: signal to self
Recommendation/share/boost: signal to audience or public

Most social networks combine these in some way or another. Bookmarks become likes, which are counted to become social proof or shown to followers or used to prioritize display, making them de facto recommendations.

And that encourages people to game the system.

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