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by jakear 1491 days ago
Literally write a script. The scripts other people are paid to write aren't going to help you if you refuse to participate in their profit model.

If you want something to exist either finance it or make it. Don't whine that other people aren't building it for free. I'm thankful the API even exists, it'd be easy for them to keep their walled garden totally isolated.
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tomc1985 1491 days ago
Yes, let's remedy the problem by throwing in another solution in an already crowded marketplace. Burning thousands of hours grinding away at something that most likely won't take.

Hollywood has thousands if not millions of people literally "writing their own script". 99% of them won't get anywhere with it, wasting time and years of their life on a fruitless endeavor. Those are shit odds, and I don't see why society in general would be any different.

Don't let survivor bias cloud your judgement.

Much better to simply rip profits off the scalps of this contemptible society and revel in its few pleasures with a tribe of likeminded discontents. We can all watch the world burn together, and bitch about how much better life would be if regular folks didn't suck so much.

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jakear 1491 days ago
What are you talking about dude? I’m just saying integrate with instagrams existing api to make your own personal viewer with the contents you want. Where are you getting thousands of hours, crowded marketplaces, and Hollywood from?

It'd take a 1,000 line html file and a couple serverless functions running on some free tier (CORS...), maximum.

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tomc1985 1491 days ago
I don't see how some HTML and a bunch of serverless code is going to fix the problem of instagram constantly indulging me in vanity and emotionally manipulative bullshit. The only thing it will do is lock me into a cycle of maintenance and updating all the the mercy of whatever this free tier is and the API that it connects to.

And neither is building my own solution going to change anything. That is my point. You can't innovate your way out of people polluting the commons for their own selfish bullshit, because even if you do they will just pile on once it becomes big enough and ruin that too.

Also, fuck serverless. Like hell I'm going to let my stuff exist at the pleasure of some corpo that can change its mind at any time. Own your code.

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jakear 1491 days ago
You just follow the accounts that post content you like. There are plenty that don't post any faces at all. Hell, it'd be trivial to detect when a face is present in a photo and filter it out. The API doesn't serve ads, so your complaint there is mute.

> The only thing it will do is lock me into a cycle of maintenance and updating all the the mercy of whatever this free tier is and the API that it connects to. And neither is building my own solution going to change anything.

> Also, fuck serverless. Like hell I'm going to let my stuff exist at the pleasure of some corpo that can change its mind at any time. Own your code.

Hilarious coming from the person refusing to own any code. Sure, host your own server on your own rack connected to your own ISP. See what I care.

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