[alex1138]

This is less a pro-Flickr than an anti-Insta but I absolutely refuse to sign up for the latter

Zuck purely bought it to murder competition in the crib

I'm not going to sign up for it just because he put a hard login wall ("look at how many users we have!")

He kills art, he kills organic reach, all his products turn into spam, 97 ads per real post

[amatecha]

IG was cool when it started, but yeah, its acquisition (and shortly before) was such a swift downhill slide. Haven't even logged into my account in years and years.

[alex1138]

People have this real tendency to say x never would have accomplished y, when in fact the ecosystem was ripe for it

The Winklevoss twins, whose project Zuckerberg intentionally delayed while he got to market first (whatever it was. I don't know exactly. Some say it was only a dating site. Some say they used bootstrapping effects to onboard colleges first). It was 2003 or whatever. It very well could've disrupted Myspace or Friendster and made them multi billionaires

"Instagram had no users" people really liked Instagram. It could've taken off, if it wasn't already

Whatsapp - Whatsapp was profitable. Now Zuck has access to your phone numbers

Stop a) whitewashing his history and b) stop assuming "blah never would have accomplished". That's an utterly bizarre take in the face of theft

[khazhoux]

> Zuck purely bought it to murder competition in the crib

That makes no sense. It’s very obviously been nurtured and grown by orders of magnitude since acquisition.

[FireBeyond]

In a very different direction. Photos are almost a second class citizen on IG now. Stories. Reels. Shit, a quarter of my feed is (very repetitive) ads.

It's absolutely grown, but the concept of IG was definitely "de-prioritized".

[procaryote]

Turning it into a copy of facebook