Instagram's Diversity Wars Revisited - Quillette

This one's quite a yarn: an update on Instagram's "Fiber Community" and its further descent into the familiar Lord of the Flies territory that seems to be the inevitable end point where all online "communities" go to die these days. https://quillette.com/2019/06/07/instagrams-diversity-wars-revisited/ #politics #dystopia #mob #minds

Instagram's Diversity Wars Revisited - Quillette

In February, I wrote an essay for Quillette about the Durkheimian witch-hunting taking place on the picture-sharing platform Instagram, and how it was affecting the thousands of knitters, designers, and businesses who rely on social media for their custom. My article described how a blogger and onli...

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Jun 13 2019 · 12:25 AM

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