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One of the most convincing reasons I've heard for why certain social media sites succeed and fail have to do with how well they manage the balances between util

One of the most convincing reasons I've heard for why certain social media sites succeed and fail have to do with how well they manage the balances between utility and status game (i.e. come for the tools, stay for the network). You tweet because you want likes/retweets. You post because you want likes/comments. Even if you can see your own likes, removing visibility on others changes the nature of this dynamic. Half the reward for "scoring" a bunch of likes/upvotes/karma is that others see that you have scored a lot. What constitutes a "successful" post is all relative too. Effectively, Instagram is betting on the "utility" of sharing photos, which I'm not sure is all that strong. I've deleted my Instagram a while ago, but while I was using, it was clear that it was a highly comparative medium by nature. A super interesting post on the nature of social networks here: https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2019/2/19/status-as-a-service https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2019/2/19/status-as-a-service

dheera 7y ago
I really wish Instagram had a proper "share" feature. The current state of sharing is these idiotic feature accounts stealing work from artists without paying them, reposting them with almost zero credit to the artist (they typically hide the artist credit under rows of single "." or "---" so that the credits are pushed down beyond the "..." button), and Instagram promoting the feature account's post to peoples' discover pages instead of the original artist's post, resulting in tte artist getting very little exposure. It would be much better if it presented itself as: Artist's name [Follow button] reposted by (feature account name) [picture]
- antigirl 7y ago
  You can already repost and it credits the original artist automatically like tumblr, this is available for posts and stories.
  - dheera 7y ago
    Didn't know there was such a feature, but most "influencer" feature accounts don't do that, they download and repost the image, and write captions designed to push credits to the bottom, like: C o n g r a t u l a t i o n s, YOU OWN THE NIGHT!!! AWESOME PICTURE! [clap] [clap] [clap] . . . ------------------------------- photographer: @artist_username And the problem? Instagram's ranking algorithm promotes these idiots instead of @artist_username, and nobody ever sees who @artist_username is because it collapses the comment to the first 2 lines. It's really like a "congratulations but f-you", and I wish they'd crack down on this. Artists often don't even get reach beyond their followers at all -- the influencer feature accounts fill up peoples' discover pages. Artists continue to fall for the feature accounts, trying to get featured for exposure (that they don't actually get). It would be much better if Instagram recognized good artist content and promoted it directly, avoiding this whole reposting nonsense. The easiest way would be 0. See how the artist content does in their own personal follower network 1. If it does well reaction/like-wise, increase the number of non-followers that see it that have similar hashtag interests 2. If it continues to do well, continue to broaden the set of people that see it.
- sschueller 7y ago
  I would be more worried about giving all your rights to Instagram or whom ever you upload to. Doesn't Ring get all rights as soon as you share some of your security footage and the use that in their ads?

dheera 7y ago

I really wish Instagram had a proper "share" feature. The current state of sharing is these idiotic feature accounts stealing work from artists without paying them, reposting them with almost zero credit to the artist (they typically hide the artist credit under rows of single "." or "---" so that the credits are pushed down beyond the "..." button), and Instagram promoting the feature account's post to peoples' discover pages instead of the original artist's post, resulting in tte artist getting very little exposure. It would be much better if it presented itself as: Artist's name [Follow button] reposted by (feature account name) [picture]

antigirl 7y ago
You can already repost and it credits the original artist automatically like tumblr, this is available for posts and stories.
- dheera 7y ago
  Didn't know there was such a feature, but most "influencer" feature accounts don't do that, they download and repost the image, and write captions designed to push credits to the bottom, like: C o n g r a t u l a t i o n s, YOU OWN THE NIGHT!!! AWESOME PICTURE! [clap] [clap] [clap] . . . ------------------------------- photographer: @artist_username And the problem? Instagram's ranking algorithm promotes these idiots instead of @artist_username, and nobody ever sees who @artist_username is because it collapses the comment to the first 2 lines. It's really like a "congratulations but f-you", and I wish they'd crack down on this. Artists often don't even get reach beyond their followers at all -- the influencer feature accounts fill up peoples' discover pages. Artists continue to fall for the feature accounts, trying to get featured for exposure (that they don't actually get). It would be much better if Instagram recognized good artist content and promoted it directly, avoiding this whole reposting nonsense. The easiest way would be 0. See how the artist content does in their own personal follower network 1. If it does well reaction/like-wise, increase the number of non-followers that see it that have similar hashtag interests 2. If it continues to do well, continue to broaden the set of people that see it.
sschueller 7y ago
I would be more worried about giving all your rights to Instagram or whom ever you upload to. Doesn't Ring get all rights as soon as you share some of your security footage and the use that in their ads?