https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/oct/01/instagram-photo-dump

Our photo dumps used to be an aesthetic disruption. Now we’re just bending to the app’s will

Last year, I took 658 photos during my four-day trip to Venice. Fifteen years ago, I would have posted every single one of them to Facebook. And as I waited the three hours for them to upload, I would have opened another tab to look through all 500 photos in my second-cousin’s friend’s FLORIDA ‘09 Facebook album, which would have included 48 shots of the same sunset and 16 of a chip flavor she didn’t have back at home.