> Right, but it was never meant to specialize in user-directed filtering and discovery
We agree:
> Instagram's ontology is designed to not make this possible, because everything about it is meant to facilitate tube-feeding
So as the user-directed ontology component of the IG ecosystem, it's trash, and I will die mad about it.
> every social context that gets 'cool' eventually gets LCDed into mediocrity (even HN)
I want to distinguish my complaint here from a gatekeeper's lament. This isn't about, say, nu-goth showing up and coming to eat the fashion scene, as Tumblr did indeed instigate. I'm talking about pictures being tagged with "goth" that no one looking for "goth" content would consider relevant (a closeup of coral red lipstick, say), but which would show up as "top #goth posts" because they were highly engaged with in the other contexts people saw them. (To a lesser extent, also Etsy spam in #gothgoth, but this is more what you're talking about)
We agree:
> Instagram's ontology is designed to not make this possible, because everything about it is meant to facilitate tube-feeding
So as the user-directed ontology component of the IG ecosystem, it's trash, and I will die mad about it.
> every social context that gets 'cool' eventually gets LCDed into mediocrity (even HN)
I want to distinguish my complaint here from a gatekeeper's lament. This isn't about, say, nu-goth showing up and coming to eat the fashion scene, as Tumblr did indeed instigate. I'm talking about pictures being tagged with "goth" that no one looking for "goth" content would consider relevant (a closeup of coral red lipstick, say), but which would show up as "top #goth posts" because they were highly engaged with in the other contexts people saw them. (To a lesser extent, also Etsy spam in #gothgoth, but this is more what you're talking about)