2018-12-29 17.07.17

Instagram’s Christmas Crackdown | The Atlantic by Chris AldrichChris Aldrich (Boffo Socko)

Read Instagram’s Christmas Crackdown (The Atlantic)No meme account is safe—not even @God.
There are so many reasons here for these folks to join the IndieWeb. A solid, popular feed reader would solve many of these problems.
“We are our own BuzzFeed,” said Declan Mortimer, a 16-year-old who r...

Yes, many reasons made repeatedly evident by Instagram's past, current actions. We (the collective web of online media small and large) have warned about building on someone else platform for years. Author and journalist, John Battelle wrote an excellent article, Do Not Build Your Brand House On Land You Don’t Own. About the dangers of relying on these platforms back in 2014. But still, people act surprised and outraged whenever the landowner commands attention.

If you are not going to adhere to the agreed-upon terms of the contract with the landowner, expect to be evicted.

Sigh.

2018-11-30 15.46.35

Indie WYSIWYG: How I Fixed My Instagram Problem by Alex Kearney (kongaloosh.com)

There's a saying in the indieweb community: manual until it hurts. Don't automate what you're doing until it's so painful that you're compelled to automate. It'll take time to maintain the code that's replacing your manual--software rots.

 

This is a very subjective principle. What hurts one person is painless to someone else. The problem with this ideology for me: I'm lazy. If it's not easy, it's agony.

Same. Manual until it hurts meant that the the process, time and effort of posing content often took longer than the creation of the content.

Instagram Retouch

Retouching Old Photos (Daniel Brinneman)

If you have followed me on Instagram for a long time, you’ll see new photos being posted with old dates. I’m taking the photo-editing techniques I’ve learned since 2015 and starting from scratch with the original RAW file(s) and referencing my old photo’s finished appearance, with some of them, to match that similar feel and maybe some receive a new finish. Scroll down my Instagram feed today to put some of them into memory so when you see the retouch appear, you can appreciate the quality that a computer program gives RAW photos over the quality that a smartphone editor will provide. The old photos are removed from my Instagram feed. There is almost no comparison between the two finished photos except that they are derived from the same file. I’ve collaged two images below using Affinity Photo (my Photoshop alternative) so you can see the difference. Both finished images took about the same amount of time to edit, thirty minutes or more with several layers, no filters. The old photo (top) edited with Snapseed and the retouch (bottom) edited with Luminar.

I may do the same.