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Re:The Bleak Reality of the Instagram Experience by lm28469 on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @10:52AM (#19086399)
> They are going to make with or without approval

Well yeah that's the whole point. If you "make" to show you're not a "maker" you're a "shower". IG is purely built for attention seekers / self centered people and wouldn't exists without them. (it's always a form of narcissism / virtue signalling / showing off

You can be happy they share their stuff on instagram but it doesn't change the underlying reason of why it is shared.

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Re:The Bleak Reality of the Instagram Experience by psychomugs on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @12:33PM (#19087437)
Some makers are motivated by showing / sharing things to others even before social media was around. Instagram is also a useful marketing platform for creative professionals who may otherwise have had a harder time breaking through. Just because the platform doesn't fit your use case doesn't mean people don't use it for useful applications.
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