[vbo]

My fuck-you-right-back response is I don't sign up and give up using the app. I had an instagram account and deleted it years ago. I don't want a new one. Sadly instagram is sign up only, so good luck to them and good bye.

[nocoiner]

Yup, this is how I respond too. While occasionally it leads to missing content I used to enjoy (miss u, /r/dogelore), for the most part I wind up never noticing the absence and having more time in my day. Win win!

[tomjen3]

I think it was Carl Newport who wrote that you should only use social media for your intended purposes and that you should use what technology (I think he said tool) is most effective for your particular needs.

The above is obviously my words and not from a direct quote, but I am using that strategy - for me Facebook is great for finding things that happens around here and so I visit it for a few minutes a couple times a week. Sadly most of my friends are on messenger, so I have that installed on my phone.

I haven't seen a need for Instagram, so I don't use it. I used to use it as a strictly photo posting place, but I stopped that hobby.

[BaseballPhysics]

> So you either have to ignore your friends, bore them with your morals or just give in anyway.

Is it really so hard to just say "Gah, sorry, I don't have an IG account"?

[mnsc]

Yup I have a friend that sends link to shorts(?) videos on ig and I usually open them in a private tab and accept only necessary cookies. The annoying part is that I only get to watch it once, if I miss something and want to watch it again I need to create an account... Nope! And it's usually just rehashed tiktok videos so I go there and search for it instead.

[sira04]

I make burner accounts on these platforms for this use case. No profile image, random character usernames. works fine.

[albert_e]

Like the archive.ph bypass for soft paywalls on news articles ...

Isn't there a website that simple records a GIF of the said tiktok/ IG reel and lets you share that instead?