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If Instagram had better text post support, I think everyone would just go there. They basically are already. Bands and companies promote them selves there alrea
by tayo42 4y ago
If Instagram had better text post support, I think everyone would just go there. They basically are already. Bands and companies promote them selves there already more frequently. Stories let people already share their stupid political hot tales. Honestly not sure what Twitter has over Instagram.
Instagram starting from scratch for small text posts would allow them to fix a lot of mistakes Twitter made
Maybe reddit, but seeing how their new ui is going I doubt they have the right people to make decisions there
Also, Twitter was is already dieing naturally. I don't think people actually want more Twitter
- lupire 4y agoInstagram is mostly softcore porn. People who don't want that don't want to hang out there.
- tayo42 4y agoThe content you see Instagram is up to you. I don't get any of that. Clean up what you follow! Lol
- Tozen 4y agoMaybe soft porn is a bit of a reach or possibly not the best way to describe it, but it does seem people come for the visuals, not the text. Instagram comes off as much more sexualized (even if indirectly) and female oriented.
- alphabettsy 4y agoAgain, this is all about what you interact with. I don’t see that.
- theragra 4y agoAgree. I see posts from my.friends, NASA, ESA, hikers. The only soft porn account is porn actress i specifically subscribed to
- manfre 4y ago> it does seem people come for the visuals It's an image/video sharing site...
- etrautmann 4y agoLinks for one. Threading for two. IG is really images-first, and would be a horrible platform for blogging or conversation without major changes.
- cpeterso 4y agoInstagram is practically anti-text. The app doesn't linkify URs because they don't want users to escape the app. Users worked around this with "see link in bio" to access Linktree pages. The app won't even let users select text in posts because they might copy a URL and escape the app.
- napolux 4y agowhich makes me kinda crazy after all these years. links are the pillars of the web and these apps neglect them
- alias_neo 4y agoIt's not neglect though; as the person you're replying to stated, its outright hostile by design. It was _designed_ to keep you _off_ the web, and only in the app.
- nells 4y agoThose apps aren’t part of the web.
- napolux 4y agoI can agree on this.
- mcv 4y agoAll these centralised, privatised social networks are basically anti-web. I think most of Big Tech has betrayed the goal of the Web. The only really big, popular site that's true to the original goals of the Web is Wikipedia. Everybody else just tries to lock people up in their own walled gardens again.
- holler 4y agoI wonder if Instagram adding text would push some people away who want it for the original use of photos? It already feels extremely bloated and unusable with latest shopping stuff (to me).