For the past few months I've been having intermittent trouble staying logged into Instagram. Each time I wrote it off as some kind of glitch, but during the last 48 hours or so it's been constant.
I use an app called Grids to view my Instagram feed and save those images I find interesting. I also use something called 4K Downloader to back up my (and to be honest a few of my favorite posters) pictures wholesale. I can no longer use either. I'll log in, get presented with a bunch of verification bullshit, and then after successfully getting in, I get knocked out about three minutes later and the apps are just broken until I go through the whole login process again.
Instagram's web version and the native iOS app work just fine (although after getting knocked out of Grids or 4K, both prompt me to log in again). I did some cursory investigation and apparently Instagram is now blocking all third-party apps.
Instagram is the last bit of social media I participate in. (I don't count Tumblr as a part of that, although I suppose technically I should.) I don't know what prompted this draconian lock down of their APIs, but I have a feeling it has something to do with Elon Musk's ongoing destruction of Twitter. I'm sure Zuck looked at what was going on over there, and thought…
Meta needs to fail. Twitter needs to fail. These social media mega corporations in general need to die, but sadly that won't happen as long as people use them.
I left Facebook almost a decade ago; I left Twitter—after having returned a year ago solely for the porn—much more recently. But Instagram is going to prove to be more difficult. I killed my account back in 2012 when it was taken over by Facebook and immediately regretted it, rejoining the service almost immediately.
It's an addiction, I know.
Thankfully I had the foresight to back up my photos from all the years leading up to 2012, and I have backups of everything since, but where to post them? Right now I have about 5200 images from 2012 onward, and probably a third of that prior for the years I was on prior to that. Should I post them here? Innundate my tumblr? What do you guys think? Would you be interested in seeing any of it?
I do not have any social media accounts. Lately you cannot view twitter without logging in. So I would naturally like to see your images on your website.