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Everyone Can Now Access Their Instagram DMs On the Web 42

Posted by BeauHD from the it's-about-damn-time dept.
Instagram announced Friday that it's rolling out access to DMs on the web to everyone globally. The Verge reports: Web DMs are especially convenient for people who use Instagram all the time, like reporters, influencers, and social media managers. It's the easiest way to communicate privately on the platform, especially if someone is trying to respond to possibly hundreds of messages a day. Even for non-power users, typing on a laptop keyboard is easier than typing on their phone screen, so they might be more incentivized to chat over Instagram DM if they can access their inbox through a browser.
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  • Dungeon Masters? (Score:3)

    by BAReFO0t ( 6240524 ) on Saturday April 11, 2020 @06:11AM (#59931912)

    I thought there was only Zuul^WZuck...

  • Why why why? (Score:3, Insightful)

    by AndyKron ( 937105 ) on Saturday April 11, 2020 @06:13AM (#59931918)
    Why the hell would I have anything to do with Instagram?

    • Why not? Now that Tumblr has banned obscene content DMs will have to find a new advertising outlet for their fetishdens.

  • I'm surprised... (Score:4, Insightful)

    by demon driver ( 1046738 ) on Saturday April 11, 2020 @06:19AM (#59931924) Journal

    ... that something like Slashdot seems to take for granted that readers know (or care for) what an "Instagram DM" is. WTF?

    • >"... that something like Slashdot seems to take for granted that readers know (or care for) what an "Instagram DM" is. WTF?"

      I was going to post the same thing.

      I don't and won't use "social media" (outside of something like Slashdot, which I don't really categorize as such). I have never seen the term "DM" used in print, or verbally. I actually had to do research to find out what "DM" is. Apparently it is "Direct Messaging." Why that couldn't be put somewhere in the summary is amazing.

  • What the fuck is a "Web DM"? Dungeon Master? What the fuck? Fucking worthless goddamn journalists and editors. They are the goddamn worst crap. No wonder Trump can so easily make them the enemy. Holy fucking shit. Would it fucking kill the writer/editor to include the fucking expansion of some esoteric fucking, made-up, LGBTQ-Femiterrorist acronym?

    • Ya know, you look really deranged coming here and consuming content that you claim to despise so much. When I find something that I am opting into rather distasteful, the logic course of action is to opt out of it. Really, I think you were just itching for an opportunity to perhaps virtue signal to others that you have contempt for media which is definitely quite the rage among conservatives these days. To summarize, if you don't like the content then don't consume it, it's odd that has not occurred to you.

  • Since we're old farts, and no 'Influencers' how about telling us what the fuck you're talking of?

    Not all of us ate the pudding from the social apps.

    And now get off my lawn.

    • That's Direct Message, and has been in use since IRC became a thing around 1990 or so, "old fart".

      • Umm, no.

        It was called a Whisper.

        You might be confusing DCC with Whispers, but that stood for Direct Client to Client.

        Perhaps you shouldn't make shit up.

        • LOL WTF are you smoking? I can categorically say I have never once seen the word whisper used in IRC. Even searching for it on google only produces results relating to twitch which from what I remember wasn't a thing back when I only had a 14.4k modem (I'm not the oldest fart here).

          • /whisper is literally the IRC command for a "DM" you tool.

          • I can categorically say I have never once seen the word whisper used in IRC.

            Then you never once ran IRC on Unix or VMS in the early 90s. Never once.

            Why dont you also stop making shit up?

      • You mean private messages, don't you? When did they become known as direct messages?

        • You mean private messages, don't you? When did they become known as direct messages?

          PM and DM has been used interchangeably since the dawn of chatting online. But if you need a hard date related specifically to a service, Reddit has called them "Directs" or "Direct Messages" since it was started 15 years ago. But they sure as heck didn't invent that term. Also I'm sure PM stood for personal message before it stood for private message.

    • They're finally making more of Instagram work without installing an app. But you still pretty much have to have the app to use it. Therefore, I don't use it.

  • You mean like brain-dead chicks licking toilet seats? Or Russian bots telling us that 5G Masts cause Covid-19?
  • I'm not an Instagram user, but I know it's becoming popular.
    Apparently private messages existed in the app version but not the website, why?
    And why are releasing this just now? A bit late, isn't it?

    • Apparently private messages existed in the app version but not the website, why?

      Hell, you can't even do the single thing Instagram IS from the web; you can't add a new post. You can browse the posts of the people you follow, but cannot add your own. There is a workaround; you can open the Inspect, click on the mobile icon, then refresh. THEN you'll get the post button. But there are still limitations like you cannot add multiple pictures to a post like you can from the App. It's idiotic.

  • Big Fucking Whoopee

  • Download (Score:3)

    by dohzer ( 867770 ) on Saturday April 11, 2020 @07:48AM (#59932070)

    Do they have an easy-to-use photo download system in place yet, because if not, I'm not going to use it.

  • OK, just when you think Slashdot has hit an all-time low, there is a "story" about Instagram DMs "on the web"? OK, I did give it a couple of seconds of though, apparently Instagram has direct messages (it was my second try after Dungeon Master didn't make sense) but they were not on their website - hence the 2 seconds of thought about how we've started having apps offering more features than their websites, but we are getting more and more far from "news for nerds" or "stuff that matters"...
    I do miss severa

  • subjects are dumb (Score:5, Insightful)

    by TFlan91 ( 2615727 ) on Saturday April 11, 2020 @08:37AM (#59932134)

    How about letting people upload from their computer without emulating a mobile device via dev tools...

    Stupid social media.

    • Why would they have different functions on mobile and desktop? ++Unhelpful

      • It was intended to be a mobile only platform. The only relation to desktop was to allow news sites to link to the graphics in someone's feed.

    • How about letting people upload from their computer without emulating a mobile device via dev tools...

      Stupid social media.

      Or maybe reverse course and go back to what Instagram was intended for, uploading selfies with filters, not sharing your carefully touched up DSLR shots after you're done in Photoshop.

      I agree though, it should be all or nothing.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by antdude ( 79039 )

      Ditto. I hated it when online services are limited on computers' web browsers compared to apps'.

  • Using the words "communicate privately" when speaking of Instagram/Facebook is funny. Think about it, why would Facebook/Instagram want to make it so easy for people to "communicate privately" on their platform?
  • Now if instagram would upgrade their photo storage to a decent resolution instead of 640x480 as it is now, I might use it!

  • This was a main complaint of mine from years ago when I first started using IG, always a huge hassle replying to anyone since it could only be done on a mobile device. Still can't upload anything through a browser, etc..

    In reality it's an incredibly shitty and buggy platform, and generally the 'social' aspect of this 'social media' is really conducive to dropping one-liners, and certainly not social in any meaningful way. I don't get how something that's made so much money can still be so incredibly bad and

    • It's by design, privacy permissions tend to be weaker on smartphones (as an Android user I admit the problem seems to be worse on my platform), thus making data mining much easier and lucrative. Fuck Facebook and all their products, bunch of creepy fucks that feel entitled to people's information.
  • In other words, this is not for real people.

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