The reports of Instagram's death are greatly exaggerated.
(Also hashtags are working as normal for me)
this post was submitted on 30 Nov 2023
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This is not a good place to simply share cool photos/videos or promote your own work and projects, but rather a place to discuss photography as an art and post things that would be of interest to other photographers.
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Instagram isn’t dying, it’s just not as hyped as it used to be.
It's not so much the hashtags themselves, but with the removal of "Recent posts" in favor of "Recent top posts", they might as well be dead.
OP, I've gone back to Flickr. I'm not generating enough leads from there to justify Pro yet, but we'll see.
This is asked weekly. Scroll down the sub a bit or just search for 'Instagram' in the search bar.
I started adding YouTube and moved to posting images to the blog on my website and directing people there instead of direct sharing to socials. Short term growth in terms of “followers” will naturally be affected but it does insure me a bit from the death of a platform
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There are a ton of photography subreddits on Reddit I‘ve heard.
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You can print all your images out and let them go from a high window on a windy day. It's just as, if not more effective than throwing your images into the digital noise of any social media.
(Please use eco friendly paper.)
Vero
I wouldn't use Instagram for reach, just my opinion.
It's nice to use it as a gallery, but in my experience people connect to me when I'm taking pictures, and then follow me to stay connected, not the other way around
Check out Pixelfed! It's very similar to instagram as far as the UI goes, but very differently structured on the backend: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixelfed
I've been able to connect with a lot of photographers on threads using a "dear algorithm" post.
Unless if getting interactions on your photos is paying you (like YouTube), then stop caring. Actually, just try your hand at YouTube as an experimental creative thing.
Reddit is my new home for posting my photos. I get much better engagement, feedback from all of you kind folks, and the measure of views vs upvotes and upvotes vs downvotes is a more interesting measure of performance. I made a video of the comparison with instagram on my YouTube channel 2 weeks ago, if you are interested https://youtu.be/ouW0m6QTzhM
Maybe it's the stuff you're posting. Is it your best work? Is it only your photography or are you slipping in some vacation pics or unrelated content? I recently watched a Scott Kelby session on this very thing. People that follow you for photography content will be turned off by off-topic posts and will likely unfollow you. Have a look back at your posts and see if you can find off-topic posts and then remove them. Then do some research on the very best hashtags to use.
Vero is cool. Has a very diverse range of styles, not just the usual cinematic bollocks. Judging from my interactions the demographic skews older and are people that are passionate hobbyists rather than trying to exploit an algorithm etc. probably because Vero doesn’t have an algorithm. Just a chronological feed and hashtags.
Flickr, even now.
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