Carl SetzerAh, quintessential #enshittification. I'm sure @pluralistic would agree.
https://gizmodo.com/meta-tests-holding-instagram-hostage-unscrollable-ads-1851517163
莹莹And I just set up a Pixelfed account today. What fortuitous timing.
@serialdeviant I need to explore Pixelfed. This is new to me.
@carlsetzer It isn't bad, just rather small. I could just stick with posting photos on the Mastodon instance, but Pixelfed allows up to ten photos, and mimics the Instagram layout.
I'm liking the relative anonymity / privacy of the Fediverse. Less negativity all-round.
FluffyBunnikins@carlsetzer @pluralistic I’ve been reporting every single ad on Instagram as spam for over a year now. Every. Single. One. I wonder if I’m going to be able to do that to these ‘unskippables’.
I TRIED TO TELL YOU@FluffyBunnikins @carlsetzer @pluralistic I do that as well, but whenever I get the unskippable that's when I log out once and for all.
Ed the climate guy@FluffyBunnikins @carlsetzer @pluralistic I was doing the same thing until I stopped logging in to IG recently. Fuck Meta.
Ian@carlsetzer @pluralistic You're not being held hostage; you can close the app, delete it, and be no worse off.
"Enshitification" only applies when the service was at some point good. Changes like this are just are a reminder that this extremely tertiary thing is, at best, a distraction and not necessary at all.
CavyherdWasn't this an story element in an episode of Dark Mirror some years ago?
"You may not leave. You have not viewed the advertising presented to you sufficiently," or words to that effect....
@infosec_jcp 🐈🃏 done differentlyLeave... There are #ADFree alternatives without InstaCSAM and TheBookOfCSAM aka BoomersONLY CrimesOnlyBook.
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Adams a known Gaslighter. His first foray into the fediverse video was just gaslighting. Everyone knows.
Treat it like Xitter, leave, like everyone else who left & was replaced by #XViewBotsONLY .