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Instagram deleting archived stories, turning old videos into photos
- avalys 2y agoThis looks more like they had a bug and lost a few, other than a static photo representation that was probably stored independently.
- netsharc 2y agoGeez, yeah, that notice reads like they lost some data. And didn't tell anyone about it, unless you looked. And in July 2025 they'll memory-hole the "Sorry^W, we lost your data." notice. Edit: Correction, there's no "Sorry".
- srik 2y agoIt affected a lot more people actually, including one of my old account’s main video posts, so not just stories. It wasn’t popular but still sucked because I was featuring penmanship in motion but now many of them are just static screenshots. But that’s the implicit risk when hosting on someone else’s platform so c'est la vie I guess. [1] https://www.instagram.com/sri.letterstudy https://www.instagram.com/sri.letterstudy
- moffkalast 2y agoThat xkcd is relevant again: https://xkcd.com/1150 https://xkcd.com/1150
- hnfong 2y agoAlso relevant https://xkcd.com/1683/ https://xkcd.com/1683/
- AStonesThrow 2y agoLife imitates art: https://xkcd.com/1150/ https://xkcd.com/1150/
- benterix 2y agoOnce they decided to block showing new posts for tags, leaving only the so-called "top posts", I stopped using Instagram as it stopped making any sense to me, i.e. I could no longer find anything interesting.
- justinator 2y agoWhat did you start using, instead?
- dylan604 2y agoMaybe they are happy in recovery instead of constantly chasing the tail of the dragon. That would be the happiest ending
- justsomehnguy 2y agoLOL? You don't need to be glued to some social media service 24/7.
- KTibow 2y agoIf getting off it was that easy, a lot less people would be using social media
- benterix 2y agoI believe yes, it's that easy. Zuck is breaking your feed posting ads and low quality retention content, you see only the most vocal discussions, people who post less often are not shown at all, and one day you realize your old FB which was more about connecting with others is just full of shit you have no intention of following at all. Sometimes your muscle memory wins so you open it once or twice to see what is going on, still same unpleasant experience, and then you quit.
- justinator 2y agoJudgement aside, I used the tag to see conditions of areas I wanted to visit. Like if someone tagged photos, #NationalPark, I could see how much snow was on the ground and bring the right gear.
- trigganiggaz 2y ago[flagged]
- jjulius 2y agoYet another friendly reminder that your data isn't yours unless you store it locally.
- gcarvalho 2y agoAnd also that 1 copy is (eventually) 0 copies.
- AStonesThrow 2y agoAnd you wrote/maintain the app that can open, process, and serve that data. And you can keep up with storage technologies as they age and become obsolete. And you can run a perfect IDS/IPS/DLP/firewall secure environment with your own custom self-hosted cloud. And your local cloud has four-nines high-availability clustering, power, and network peering. glhf.
- jjulius 2y agoYou're over-engineering what is otherwise a straightforward solution for this particular instance. Instagram allows you to save stories to your mobile device, so... 1.) Download your story to your mobile device. Congratulations, you now have your own copy of your story that is yours and not under control of Instagram. You could stop here if you want, or you could... 2.) Copy the file to another device you might keep in your home. This could be a desktop, a laptop, a NAS, a generic external hard drive, whathaveyou. Congratulations, now you have three copies of this (Instagram's servers, your mobile device, and whatever third option you chose). With video content like this, they're typically in popular formats that are unlikely to "go out of style" any time soon. Beyond this particular instance? You're still over-engineering things. Most people are pretty simple - they want to keep their photos and videos, maybe some word documents and such, music and movies. Those formats are so standardized that all you need to do is store them on any electronic device you own at home, and move them to whatever new device you get when you upgrade. There's certainly a non-zero risk of device failure, but as we see in this very thread, there's also a non-zero risk of data loss in the cloud, so... c'est la vie. Nobody really needs all of what you described in order to keep most of what they want.
- ChrisArchitect 2y ago"Reportedly". Story from July. Something more substantial than twitter anecdote post https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/31/tech/instagram-story-archives-deletion/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/31/tech/instagram-story-arch...
- livinglist 2y agoI do find that my video stories from months ago have very severely degraded image quality.
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- CatWChainsaw 2y agoI never understand why addicted users of social media feel the need to upload so many pictures and videos. Even if you were only doing one per day, how often do you think you'd look back at that one? Is there anything of significance to your stupid TikTok besides a fleeting chance at fleeting virality? When storage fills limitless they feel compelled to fill it with meaningless BS. In an era before smartphones you had to be judicious with what you recorded. We could use that mindset a lot more. And free up a lot of storage space.