[jakear]

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.

[tomc1985]

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.

[jakear]

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.