Went to a cocktail bar last night fully intending to order a cocktail.
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Went to a cocktail bar last night fully intending to order a cocktail.
Bartender: "We don't have a physical menu. You have to check us out on #Instagram to get the cocktail list."
I find them on Instagram only to discover that it's impossible to see their menu there when not logged in.
I. Don't. Have. An. Instagram. Account.
Me: "Yeah, I'll have a small beer, thanks." (at less than quarter of the price of a cocktail)
FFS businesses, stop getting captured by #Meta. It hurts your business.@NudelnAlDente FFS: a static web page somewhere on the internet is effectively free. If your marketing team insists on using Instagram, just use your posts to point to that page.
Also: if your marketing team insists on using Instagram as the sole point of entry, fire them and find some who really understands marketing
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Went to a cocktail bar last night fully intending to order a cocktail.
Bartender: "We don't have a physical menu. You have to check us out on #Instagram to get the cocktail list."
I find them on Instagram only to discover that it's impossible to see their menu there when not logged in.
I. Don't. Have. An. Instagram. Account.
Me: "Yeah, I'll have a small beer, thanks." (at less than quarter of the price of a cocktail)
FFS businesses, stop getting captured by #Meta. It hurts your business.@NudelnAlDente I’ve walked out of several places in the past couple of years when they don’t accept cash. This kind of thing just makes it impossible for people of lesser means to buy a cup of coffee. It pisses me off a whole lot.
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@heafnerj @raganwald @NudelnAlDente I always have a thought, to replice some of them to lemonparty, goatsee or some other “internet safety basics visual learning tool” from the older ages - I never will, but I fantasise about it almost every time I’m in a place that pushes me to use qr codes….
@DMTomas @raganwald @NudelnAlDente I wouldn't mind doing that myself...
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@heafnerj “I tried it and somewhere in the process a hidden app (forgot the name at the moment) was silently downloaded and installed on my iPhone without my knowledge or consent.”
That is incredibly bad.
@raganwald @NudelnAlDente At the time it was, except to me, about this particular payment system but I hadn't heard about it. The apparently didn't know either so I really can't fault them.
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@NudelnAlDente There was an ice cream place that sold ice cream shakes near me. The menu was animated, and would only show the shake ingredients for a couple seconds before cycling. The server explained that I could just ask and she could tell me what was in each, and I really tried but my brain just could not process what the options were.
@HeckinChonker @NudelnAlDente Gotta love those places with decor styled after the flashing adverts at the bottom of listicles. Overstimulation? Why, what’s that?
And heaven forbid you’re Deaf and trying to get a shake.
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@raganwald @NudelnAlDente At the time it was, except to me, about this particular payment system but I hadn't heard about it. The apparently didn't know either so I really can't fault them.
@heafnerj @NudelnAlDente It occurred to me that it could be the vendor. Or a system that was compromised. So I tried to make a neutral, blameless comment.
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Yeah those businesses can f**k right off. I don't have an insta or facebook account and have noticed recently neither will allow me view anything, which I'm happy with. I don't mind telling people I can't open their link.
I very very rarely would click on a tik tok and never anything x. I have x blocked in browser so often see news stories with loads of blocked panel. It tends to be the "news" not worth reading in that case.
Youtube I still tolerate@Doomstrike @NudelnAlDente
I’m at the edge of my tolerance for YouTube too, now. It’s definitely getting more and more #enshittified -
@epicdemiologist @NudelnAlDente I can understand the restaurant. There’s inconsiderate types who make advance reservations at five or six places and then see what their mood is come dinner. They don’t bother to cancel the other restaurants. Result is that those may have turned away other customers. Asking for a phone number allows them at least to call like “Hey, you’re 30 mins late, should we still hold the table?”. Also, not being anonymous is a bit of a deterrent from being a selfish prick.
@ArtHarg @NudelnAlDente Nonono, I'm not talking about reservations! I'm talking about getting on the waitlist as a walk-in!
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My phone is configured to block all Meta hosts, so Instagram is a 404 for me. If I can't buy from you or work with you without disabling Blokada, I'm walking away.
@CppGuy @rootschange @NudelnAlDente so does our wifi at home.
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Went to a cocktail bar last night fully intending to order a cocktail.
Bartender: "We don't have a physical menu. You have to check us out on #Instagram to get the cocktail list."
I find them on Instagram only to discover that it's impossible to see their menu there when not logged in.
I. Don't. Have. An. Instagram. Account.
Me: "Yeah, I'll have a small beer, thanks." (at less than quarter of the price of a cocktail)
FFS businesses, stop getting captured by #Meta. It hurts your business.Some small places that survived the pandemic shutdowns shed their waitstaff, so self-ordering apps, web apps, and kiosks support that reduced staffing. It's pretty hostile to some customers if there is no physical kiosk, though.
In my case, the significance of one QR code on a corner of a table wasn't obvious, and it's a wonder that someone noticed the increasingly restive old people sitting with no drinks or settings in front of them, and came over and explained it to us.
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Went to a cocktail bar last night fully intending to order a cocktail.
Bartender: "We don't have a physical menu. You have to check us out on #Instagram to get the cocktail list."
I find them on Instagram only to discover that it's impossible to see their menu there when not logged in.
I. Don't. Have. An. Instagram. Account.
Me: "Yeah, I'll have a small beer, thanks." (at less than quarter of the price of a cocktail)
FFS businesses, stop getting captured by #Meta. It hurts your business.@NudelnAlDente
I also don't have a meta account.
but imginn.com can be a workaround if
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@ArtHarg @NudelnAlDente Nonono, I'm not talking about reservations! I'm talking about getting on the waitlist as a walk-in!
@epicdemiologist @NudelnAlDente Oh, right. That’s a bit excessive. They could hand out numbered tokens or something.
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@epicdemiologist @NudelnAlDente Oh, right. That’s a bit excessive. They could hand out numbered tokens or something.
@ArtHarg @NudelnAlDente Exactly!
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@hypostase Nope, fuck 'em. They lost the sale on a more expensive drink. The beer was fine, local & cheap.
@NudelnAlDente @hypostase I would have just left entirely.
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@CppGuy @rootschange @NudelnAlDente so does our wifi at home.
I would do the same if it weren't for Mrs Wife, who would strongly object.
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@CaptainAyeAye @NudelnAlDente Any shop that still has portfolios on their own website is 100% more likely to get my business.
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Went to a cocktail bar last night fully intending to order a cocktail.
Bartender: "We don't have a physical menu. You have to check us out on #Instagram to get the cocktail list."
I find them on Instagram only to discover that it's impossible to see their menu there when not logged in.
I. Don't. Have. An. Instagram. Account.
Me: "Yeah, I'll have a small beer, thanks." (at less than quarter of the price of a cocktail)
FFS businesses, stop getting captured by #Meta. It hurts your business.@NudelnAlDente "You can only buy our goods if you let the shoe shop up the road spy on you at all times."
"Do ... do they pay you or something?"
"What? Of course not. We pay them."
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Went to a cocktail bar last night fully intending to order a cocktail.
Bartender: "We don't have a physical menu. You have to check us out on #Instagram to get the cocktail list."
I find them on Instagram only to discover that it's impossible to see their menu there when not logged in.
I. Don't. Have. An. Instagram. Account.
Me: "Yeah, I'll have a small beer, thanks." (at less than quarter of the price of a cocktail)
FFS businesses, stop getting captured by #Meta. It hurts your business.@NudelnAlDente We were at the San Diego airport and had our drinks and meal at the brewery there. My husband was ready to walk out because of QR code and web ordering. And lack of interaction with staff. We stayed.
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Went to a cocktail bar last night fully intending to order a cocktail.
Bartender: "We don't have a physical menu. You have to check us out on #Instagram to get the cocktail list."
I find them on Instagram only to discover that it's impossible to see their menu there when not logged in.
I. Don't. Have. An. Instagram. Account.
Me: "Yeah, I'll have a small beer, thanks." (at less than quarter of the price of a cocktail)
FFS businesses, stop getting captured by #Meta. It hurts your business.@NudelnAlDente Similar thing happened to me yesterday looking for a Silent Bookclub, 3 nearby and they all use FB as their webpage
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@roguefoam @raganwald @NudelnAlDente That sounds familiar and *may* have been the one. I found the hidden app about a week after the fact as I recall.
