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I find this fairly repugnant. In the same way that dumpster diving also gets you free food - but you are essentially a parasite, living on the waste of others.
by horsawlarway 5y ago
I find this fairly repugnant.
In the same way that dumpster diving also gets you free food - but you are essentially a parasite, living on the waste of others. At least with the dumpster diving, the relationship is clear.
He generates literally nothing of value here - everything is stolen from others.
I truly hope we end up with the same social aversions to things like this that we do for other taboo social activities.
- mariodiana 5y agoI ultimately decided to scrape directly from other Instagram feeds […] I stopped reading, right there.
- oh_sigh 5y agoDumpster divers are commensals, not parasites.
- panda888888 5y agoI agree that it's scummy, but I don't think he creates "nothing of value." How is this any different from influencers promoting and following brands manually? He's created a curated feed of NYC pictures that thousands of people follow and like. There is value in that, and the restaurants offering him free meals proves it. I wish he had posted about his follow-ups with the restaurants (does he actually tag them & promote their business?) If yes, he's fine and is upholding what he agreed to do.
- HWR_14 5y ago> I don't think he creates "nothing of value." How is this any different from influencers promoting and following brands manually? I agree that he's no different than other "influencers". I would just contend that they also create nothing of value.
- ElevenLathe 5y agoDumpster diving is positive in that it reduces waste of real resources. If I dumpster-dive a meal then as a species we're better off on net than if I'd bought the same thing. This is the opposite, in that we are as a species probably less well off, but its not really any more destructive than other forms of astroturfing (marketers and robots pretending to be real people).