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Found this sick new website where I can post photos and look at my friends photos and it definitely won’t lead to a sharp increase in depression and anxiety for a large population of people. give it a try, search “instagram” in the App Store
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Apps that are actually fun and don’t just make you feel bad. I recommend that people should invent more bc Instagram is terrible
Apr 21, 2024
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I‘ve been trying everything to change my habits with instagram and have finally accepted that it’s not me, it’s the app 🫶🏻 I love the visual aspect/grid display of instagram so I’ve been trying out Cara which is a networking/portfolio building app for artists who want their work protected from AI. I really like it so far - I care a lot less about followers and likes and there’s no anxiety about posting. Just chill visual journaling with a bunch of like-minded people who are also weary of techno-capitalism 🌠
Feb 2, 2025
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Pintrest
If you need a more direct Instagram replacement to keep doing the pictures in squares thing in a public space you can curate, pintrest is an option. It's still social media but I feel like it's less soul suckig. More for the vibes. (from Jai's post about making a personal pintrest)
Send more photos in the groupchat or to your friends
If it's really just the sharing photos with those you love thing. Share them with the specific people you want to see them! Be shameless, maybe you'll start a thing! Maybe you'll all share photos in the groupchat, a great way to stay in touch.
Digital albums and physical scrapbook
This has been my favorite but the most removed way of replacing Instagram. I like digital albums because I can add in my one photo a day or have my favorite photos of myself and be vain and have it be just for me to look through. And I like scrapbook because they help me flip through the past vibes of the time. Which are usually the two things I want from insta. And scrapbooks have the bonus of letting me include other little memerobilia, drawings, notes.
In no way is this a comprehensive list, but you just got to find very specifically what aspect you are itching to keep and find the best way to actually be doing that. But the pull of Instagram attention is definitely there. As someone who used to post regularly I get it. But once you bite the bullet, you don't actually miss it as much as you think you will.
Mar 3, 2025
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By Anaïs Nin. Nin is wonderful. Like a modern, more frenetic version of Madame Bovary. Wonderful
“You haven't loved yet…You've only been trying to love; beginning to love. Trust alone is not love, illusion is not love, desire alone is not love. All these were paths leading you out of yourself, it is true, and so you thought they led to another, but you never reached the other. You were only on the way.”
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