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thomholwerda

I'd rather follow one weird interesting Mastodon woman than a million vapid women influencers on Instagram peddling garbage in skimpy outfits on Photoshopped bodies.

I have never joined Instagram, and I'm insanely happy I never did. Instagram is downright dangerous to (especially) women's mental health and physical wellbeing by promoting fake, Photoshopped "beauty" standards no real person can possibly measure up to.

Fuck that shit right into the goddamn sun.

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Jean-Baptiste "JBQ" Quéru

@thomholwerda I'm on instagram for the artists, but the glimpses I get of the "influencer" culture are downright scary.

onion

@thomholwerda unfortunately there are huge communities on instagram that have next to zero representation here. Even with all the shadow banning bs.

Z O R A N G R B I C

@onion @thomholwerda
That's because they're maybe on Pixelfed or elsewhere ?

*edit=typo

Z O R A N G R B I C

@onion @thomholwerda
Ouch, big misunderstanding on my part. Sorry.

Edited the initial post.

awooo :blobfoxcheck: 🏴‍☠️ :bisexual_flag: 🐾 ⎇

@thomholwerda Maybe that's the part they're hinting at, maybe they are in fact looking to get hooked on the heavily distorted images of influencers.

Neeledgam

@thomholwerda Guess you're in the wrong bubble on Insta. But never mind, wouldn't want to take away from your insane happiness.

Sarah J Hoodlet

@thomholwerda Yep, I'm so glad I got rid of Instagram a few years ago. Both that and Facebook were awful for my mental health, and I dread the day if I have to go back for any reason.

Mireille Sillander :telegram:

@thomholwerda I mean it's pretty great there if you have the patience to curate your experience to just the arts and weird looking architecture (and fiber crafts). But yeah the out-of-the-box default experience is very bad

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