Extratone on Instagram: "hello, instagram § It's been a while for us, but it's not like we could've forgotten about you - you now generate more than a quarter of all sales for Facebook, Inc. Last year, you made $20 billion for the company, surpassing YouTube by a whole 25%. If you allowed hyperlinks in captions (like PixelFed, for instance,) we'd be able to seemlessly cite the Bloomberg article from February 4th in providing these numbers, but you don't, and neither does your elder brother, The Big Blue App. If you're still wondering why you've been struggling with a misinformative, anti-truth, anti-journalism renown lately, we would suggest you look into these "hyperlinks." They've been around for quite a long time and everyone else has found them to be extremely useful. § At this very moment, we are thinking about the quaint little app with the square photos and the cute skeuomorphic logo. We're wondering how that niche visual space grew up to become the gargantuan, vain monstrosi...
1 likes, 0 comments - extratonemag on June 21, 2020: "hello, instagram § It's been a while for us, but it's not like we could've forgotten about you - you now generate more than a quarter of all sales for Facebook, Inc. Last year, you made $20 billion for the company, surpassing YouTube by a whole 25%. If you allowed hyperlinks in captions (like PixelFed, for instance,) we'd be able to seemlessly cite the Bloomberg article from February 4th in providing these numbers, but you don't, and neither does your elder brother, The Big Blue App. If you're still wondering why you've been struggling with a misinformative, anti-truth, anti-journalism renown lately, we would suggest you look into these "hyperlinks." They've been around for quite a long time and everyone else has found them to be extremely useful. § At this very moment, we are thinking about the quaint little app with the square photos and the cute skeuomorphic logo. We're wondering how that niche visual space grew up to become the gargantuan, vain monstrosity we see before us today. Of course, we know the answers are exhaustively well-documented, but the truth might as well be as illusive as it's ever been without hyperlinks. § We know that it is largely futile, using your platform to attempt reaching out to your established users from the cold, but we are also sure that you cannot continue on forever this way. § We have learned to accept, explore, and appreciate spaces on The Web that we once avoided in assumption-fueled disgust. The Read It website is a particularly extreme example of this shift. After we happened upon some powerful community features recently, we decided to reestablish our subreddit - r/Extratown. Join if you wish - we promise there will be hyperlinks. ⫸ extratone.com 🀽 reddit.com/r/extratown 〠 horn@extratone.com".