> Then all the "normies" got on it and my feed started to just be casual snaps by people I knew in real life... which rapidly lead to its final form

Most people who use social media want to see photos and updates from their friends they know in real life. This is the core value proposition.

If seeing casual photos from your real life friends you call “normies” is disappointing to you, Instagram is probably not what you want. Keeping in touch with friends is the primary use case of the platform.

However, you likely could get the experience you want by maintaining two separate accounts. One for your friends and one for photography. The app makes it easy to switch between the two.

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steveBK123 an hour ago | parent [-]

> Keeping in touch with friends is the primary use case of the platform.

I think unfortunately for IG in particular, it evolved for a segment of people into a status flexing game more than genuinely keeping in touch.

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Aurornis an hour ago | parent [-]

> it evolved for a segment of people

Every social media platform has a lot of different segments of people using it for different reasons.

If one of your follows is posting content you don’t like, it’s so easy to unfollow them. If you feel obligated to follow for social reasons, Instagram even has convenient features to hide their posts so you can maintain the follow without seeing their content.

I’m not a heavy Instagram user but I’ve found it trivially easy to tailor my feed to the content I want to see (friends and family). That’s why I don’t find much interest in the pearl clutching about how some people post on the platform. I’m not there to judge and moralize about others.

	▲	balamatom 2 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		>If you feel obligated to follow for social reasons, Instagram even has convenient features to hide their posts so you can maintain the follow without seeing their content. "And this year we have made it doubleplus easy for you to ignore the things you don't like! Awesome!" This shit right there. This fucking shit right there is the reason I begin to think less of anyone the moment they mention being on Instagram. In fact I have a marked difficulty conceptualizing as a full sentient human being anyone who has agreed to being turned into an Instagram user. I'm rather certain the sentiment is mutual, and quite tired of pretending otherwise. Sorry. It embodies the the worst aspects of socialization (duplicity) and technology (totality), in one perpetual convenient package, served to you alongside the implicit demand to enjoy - or at least be indifferent to - this thing's very existence in the world. Dear "hackers", how does a body kill an Instagram? Preferably without upsetting the users too much. Liberal values oblige me to believe that they are still in there somewhere.