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“[For] people who live in the country or in remote areas or minority groups or [who have] small businesses, that is a really good way for them to communicate and reach other people,” she says.
“It’s just not possible to set up an alternative at this point in time. So, to put it bluntly, we’re in a bit of deep shit, to be honest.”
No mention of Pixelfed, but I can understand why. Will it only be seen as an alternative once a critical mass of users move there? And can that happen if they don’t see it as an alternative? Chicken and egg. I’m trying out, but it’s a little vapid when everyone I know is on Instagram.
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the fact that people are so obsessed with social media that they cant even realize the simple option of just stopping all together really says how toxic and addictive social media is.
Yup, not everything needs to be replaced like for like. Some options:
- spend time on a hobby (video games, exercise, etc)
- in person relationships
- learn something new
Tons of options.
Pixelfed is a federated image-sharing network.
Touch grass. No really. There’s an ultra high def Instagram for free, for real. /outdoors
I don’t have anyone to share my experiences in that ultra high def instagram with.
You won’t find any if you only use the lo-fi one.
who says we only use the lo-fi one? It’s nice to experience the ultra hi-def one, and then share photos of those experiences on the lo-fi one.
Bring a friend
What’s that? A friend?
Some of the people you share experiences with on instagram might be up for sharing an experience in real life. Pick someone who seems nice and suggest something that might be fun
But what if you live in an ugly ass place?
Look closer.
l/outside
Still waiting for the climate change patch. Also I got stuck with my tech tree at the beginning, how change
Can’t jerk it to hot chicks in public, my guy.
Is that really what people use Instagram for?
Bro, dudes do it the Sears catalog.
but but 9/11 /s
Gotta hop on that pixelfed!
Flickr, Tumblr and Hipstamatic
What virtue signal. These don’t have fact-checking either lmao
I love Pixelfed and the federated versions of it.
“But all the other lemmings are there! I can’t leave or I’ll be left at the top of the cliff by myself!” 🙄 Guess what, there’s more of us up here who aren’t jumping than you realize.
Sorry to be harsh, but that’s how I feel about it when people say they have no choice but to enrich these social media oligarchs by participating in their exploitation machines. By contributing their “content” to be collected, sold, used for training their generative AIs, by viewing their ads, and by making themselves targets to be manipulated by propaganda of all kinds.
They already exploit us enough in ways we can’t control, without us willingly participating in their schemes.
Amen
“what’s your alternative?” the answer is always lemmy am i right guys 😎
Always has been
I use Instagram only to follow my friends, does pixelfed have private accounts ?
Yes it does! Check out pixelfed! It’s a lovely supportive community, in my experience.
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You could just not share every little scrap of your mundane lives in its full photographic glory?
We really don’t need to see another picture of a coffee with a little swirl on top, next to a mass produced bun.
You could just not share every little scrap of your mundane lives
We agree on that and I find people who do that really annoying -often muting them-, but that’s not really how I use Instagram for myself. I use Instagram to post vacation photos or to share some unusual life news, maybe four or five times a year and that’s about it with posting. I just checked and I posted 3 times in 2024 and 9 in 2023, all vacations, death of a pet or moving news - All worthy of sharing with friends, imo. Otherwise, my main use case for Insta is to track things locally, like restaurants, bars, clubs, shows, events, etc. Unfortunately there’s not a better alternative for that sort of use case in another app right now. It’s a bummer because I would love to move off of social media and use an alternative, but local stuff can’t be accessed by things like RSS feeds and lots of businesses don’t really do newsletters anymore - or in some cases don’t even bother with websites.
There are a lot of people circlejerking in this thread about not using social media and patting themselves on the back, but people who like to go outside their house and who want and actually try to keep in touch with friends can find it pretty useful. Also, Lemmy and forums are practically social media - so stop being so hypocritical with your reality warped dissonance. I see too much of that already on Instagram and reddit.
That sounds like what Facebook was for before they filled it with nonsense, scams and racism.
They just get rid of a bunch of so-called “fact checkers” deciding for you which posts you’re allowed to see and which get banned/hidden/deleted. It’s not the end of the world. You can still block people. You can still decide NOT to read posts.
Whaaaaat, and risk being offended by people having different ideas than my echo chamber? No way dude
Two chicks with a milk bottle.jpeg
You mean “Two printers and one CUPS”?
Facebook/meta should never have been allowed to buy Instagram.
Not sure if you realize how long ago that was. Meta was not a thing. IG was barely a thing. They were a shadow of the monolith they’ve become.
Its easy to say in hindsight.
Most knew Facebook at the time and many knew what they were like…
Meta seemed partly a rebrand because of that unpopularity.
Instagram is like 15 different things at once.
Its a messaging service with a TikTok like video service and a pixelfed like photo sharing service.
