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I was surprised to see the invitation to follow all my Instagram friends. Now I’m getting follow requests for my friends. I use Instagram to network with frien

I was surprised to see the invitation to follow all my Instagram friends. Now I’m getting follow requests for my friends. I use Instagram to network with friends “outside of work” and largely outside of the political sphere, and scroll through memes and silly content. It’s kind of like “friends + America’s funniest home videos”. Twitter is all about politics, current events, thought influencers, and work networking. Totally different sphere. I don’t want to share silly stuff with friends on Twitter, or share work and my thoughts about current events and my industry on Instagram. Not to mention that my Instagram account, as well as virtually all of by friends’ accounts, are private. I feel like by inviting people to follow their Instagram friends, Meta immediately precluded “taking on Twitter.”

ahahahahah 3y ago
Instagram has pretty good support for multiple accounts (including, for example, having a feed that shows content from multiple accounts). Even if they don't ever fully decouple threads accounts from Instagram ones, you could still basically have one for each.
creatonez 3y ago
> Twitter is all about politics, current events, thought influencers, and work networking. This is a rather narrow view of what the site is used for. It's also about media, art, and live music -- things that overlap heavily with Instagram. For example, I've found that you unfortunately can't avoid Twitter when keeping up with the underground electronic music scene in the US. Discord and Reddit have made some strides in replacing it, but not much.
- shrimpx 3y ago
  Interested in underground electronic music in general. Any recommendations for artists or accounts to follow?
  - creatonez 3y ago
    I quite enjoy: Xenolinguist, Mindex, Voljum, TheBusiness, Maxfield, ToneVizion, Omnist, Josh Teed, Nyquist, EOS, Tripp St, Aleph, Lemondoza, kLL sMTH Most of these names are on Soundcloud and/or Bandcamp. It's Americanized electronic bass, dubstep, halftime, and IDM with a psychedelic slant. This kind of stuff might not be everyone's cup of tea :)

ahahahahah 3y ago

Instagram has pretty good support for multiple accounts (including, for example, having a feed that shows content from multiple accounts). Even if they don't ever fully decouple threads accounts from Instagram ones, you could still basically have one for each.

creatonez 3y ago

> Twitter is all about politics, current events, thought influencers, and work networking. This is a rather narrow view of what the site is used for. It's also about media, art, and live music -- things that overlap heavily with Instagram. For example, I've found that you unfortunately can't avoid Twitter when keeping up with the underground electronic music scene in the US. Discord and Reddit have made some strides in replacing it, but not much.

shrimpx 3y ago
Interested in underground electronic music in general. Any recommendations for artists or accounts to follow?
- creatonez 3y ago
  I quite enjoy: Xenolinguist, Mindex, Voljum, TheBusiness, Maxfield, ToneVizion, Omnist, Josh Teed, Nyquist, EOS, Tripp St, Aleph, Lemondoza, kLL sMTH Most of these names are on Soundcloud and/or Bandcamp. It's Americanized electronic bass, dubstep, halftime, and IDM with a psychedelic slant. This kind of stuff might not be everyone's cup of tea :)