Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Thursday, September 29th, 2022.

I'm Brian McCullough. Today, Meta takes down an app that tried to strip out the

cruft from Instagram, but also the ads.

A bunch of new maps features from Google, all the headlines from yesterday's Amazon event,

including a Kindle you can write on, and text imageators are cool, but you know what's really cool?

Text to video generators.

Here's what you missed today in the world of Tech.

So somehow this fell through the cracks this week, but earlier this week a company

called Unifeed launched what it called the OG app for Android and iOS, which let users create and share

Instagram feeds without ads or suggested posts, similar to how Twitter lists

works.

Quoting Tech Crunch.

Users can log into their Instagram account

and it shows the home feed right away,

but the app removes ads and suggested posts

from their home feeds as well.

Plus it lets users create alternative feeds and share them with friends.

Think of it as Twitter lists, but for Instagram.

For example, you can create different feeds for food, cocktails, tennis, movie celebrities,

and photographers without following all those accounts.

Users can choose a default feed on launch.

This way users can give priority to another list over their own home feed.

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