This is why we gotta ban TikTok!!! \s
We are in the then they fight you stage.
Private company doesn’t allow promotion of competing product? That is just good business? No surprises here.
The issue is at the same time as making editorial and commercial decisions about what context is shown to people they rely on legal protections based on the fact they are a common carrier rather than having a degree of editorial control.
A platform that prevents you from posting links on such a petty basis should not exist. Does McDonalds boot you out of their restaurants if you mention you prefer Burger King?
Owned by someone almost no one likes, shoves 1000s of ads down your throat, can’t even look at something someone else sent you because you don’t have an account. Why are people leaving???
Oof looks like they’re down for the count on top of it
Not, it isn’t. It was most likely a spam filter. Images and longer messages work fine.
I don’t get why people rush to the next replica platform that will go down the exact same path of overstimulating you / mentally harming you.
Just delete Instagram.
Don’t replace it.
One advantage of Pixelfed is that it not a commercial company. So unlike Instagram, they do not have financial motivation to addict and exploit. So for people who are interested in seeing and sharing picture galleries, that seems like a good option to me.
(Personally I don’t use Instagram or Pixelfed, or any other similar service.)
Lemmy FTW
I don’t get why people rush to the next replica platform that will go down the exact same path of overstimulating you / mentally harming you.
I think they get used to the level of stimulation and now feel “wrong” without it. It takes a certain self-awareness to realize that it would be healthier to recalibrate your expectations. (I don’t think Pixelfed is a comparatively harmful platform at the moment anyway, although I suppose it could someday become one.)
I deleted instagram. I held on to Facebook for 2 reasons. One, marketplace has taken over as the only viable local resell platform. And Two, it’s the only platform I can use to share my music locally and vastly. I want my friends, family, and neighbors to hear my music and other than handing out a card with QR code to my Spotify, then I kind of stuck.
Just don’t use marketplace for apartment and house hunting. It’s filled to the brim with scammers.
I sold a bridge to someone on FB marketplace. I love it
I refuse to use Facebook even for Marketplace. I still have pretty good luck with Craigslist.
I don’t sell locally often but when I do, I use craigslist. It’s also great for picking up a cable modem on the cheap when moving into a new area (don’t have to deal with the ISP-supplied one).
Lemmy.world too. At least in admin chat.
When?
Last week. Was is admin chat talking about moving a group to lemmy. And FB deleted admin chat posts containing links to lemmy.world.
So not .world, it was Facebook?
Edit. Ah! Im slow lol I get you now. FB removed the lemmy link. Thanks
hah thanks for your line of questioning. I too initially thought they were saying LW was blocking PixelFed.
I"ve been on Pixelfed for three days and, sadly, it’s pretty underwhelming.
I’m going to give it a few weeks though and build up a feed.
Remember, there is no algorithm pushing people towards you, look around, follow people, and see who they follow.
My problem with decentralised social Media currently is that it’s entirely unencrypted and publically viewable.
I don’t mind so much on services like Lemmy where it’s a bit of fun to make comments and post random things without it being directly linked to your identity (though I am aware the content is still likely being scraped by someone somewhere).
I’d really love a Facebook/Instagram replacement, but end-to-end encrypted where only the people you’ve given permission to can view your content.
No idea how this would be achieved, but PixelFed is pretty useless unless you’re posting publically.
Okay, so if you’re doing something like a craft business and putting your portfolio out, Pixelfed can do that. Probably don’t do personal shit.
There is Diaspora, it is like a federated Facebook with a bit more privacy settings. All crickets now that everyone moved on to Mastodon.
There’s encrypted p2p stuff with nice apps like Scuttlebutt with Manyverse app, but nobody uses it.
There’s Movim which builds a social network layer over XMPP, so you can share to your contacts. Guess what - nobody uses it.
Unfortunately none of these are end-to-end encrypted (I believe). Thanks though!
I think that’s closer to what Diaspora hoped to achieve, but maybe I’m misremembering some details.
Close, but it appears admins of instances have access to your info, sadly :/
That’s what the FUTO Circles project was supposed to be about, but sadly the project got ditched by the original devs for it only a year after it started. Info on that here - https://youtu.be/OKTOhxeKrK0?si=NKvI6Esp3c33DG96
Nooooooo! That sounded perfect. The app is still up but it’s entirely missing from their website :(
Thanks for sharing
Follow hashtags for things you’re interested in too.
Lemmy was pretty sparse on posts not that long ago. Time can help.
Was?
You might be spending too much time on Lemmy if you’re still finding it lacking in content. Unless you’re referring to the amount of content in niche communities, in which case I’d agree.
Quality over quantity
Yeah, right.
People are in denial downvoting you. The useful stuff is still mostly on Reddit. I’m committed to the decentralized option but there’s no use pretending.
Old enough to remember when you could get to the “end of Twitter”, because you’d swiped through all the active posts of the day.
Yeah sadly there’s not much people on there.
Try MetaPixl
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Absent present context, that sentence suggests a degree and quality of corporate self-awareness that one can only dream of.
Zucky is feeling insecure.
I’d say provide links (maybe in an escape hub page) for all the Meta main service pages, to assert dominance.
If you want to be nasty, track how often those links have been clicked. (Meta can’t win. If it’s too low, it shows nobody wants to go there. If it’s too high, it means people are using the page as a Meta hub.)
What would the EU think of this?
Funny thing, Pixelfed isn’t even a competitor to Instagram in the very very strictest sense.
Pixelfed is a federated service for posting photos.
Instagram started out as a service for posting photos, but it has become this… thing. I don’t even know anymore.
You don’t even see photos anymore. It is 99% videos at this point.
And the 1% is adverts?
The adverts are videos also
Instagram started out as a camera filter app. Then you could post pictures. When I first downloaded it to my iPhone 3 it was only a filter. I was very confused when I tried it again on android years later.
A misinformation-peddling service for the oligarchy?
but it has become this… thing.
It’s very appropriate to call Instagram now… a thing. The site just became something to post bragadacious, fake rich lifestyle photos, people wanting to become meme themselves, or scantily clad girls looking for attention for themselves if not for their OnlyFans.
bragadacious. I learneded a new english today.
Err I mean. Obviously I already knew the word and it’s meaning, and even how to say it. I know a lot of words. People always comment on how many words I know. Im just really smart, to be honest.
Ok
whoosh
Nope, I fear whooosh yourself 😁
Only the best words?
I find it useful for finding local events where I live, updates from local businesses and newspapers… it’s also cool for following artists or bands I care about.
Idk, it’s in a weird space between facebook, what twitter used to be and tiktok. It can be useful if you curate your feed right 🤷♂️
I haven’t heard of PixelFed, but thanks for informing me and I shall go!
If you’re running an instance why not just cut the shit and block Meta?
