“[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.
“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.
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.
The Guardian cannot spell “Mastodon”, it seems from this “article”.
Why are people upset at this? Who is stupid enough to trust fact checkers or community notes on social media? Read a real news site for facts.
About 90% of the electorate is stupid enough, and fact checking measures are to limit the damage to them.
Who are the “fact checkers”?
Regime whores similar to “journalists”
Pixelfed is a federated image-sharing network.
“what’s your alternative?” the answer is always lemmy am i right guys 😎
Always has been
Talk to people?
Gotta hop on that pixelfed!
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
Will it only be seen as an alternative once a critical mass of users move there?
I mean, yeah? That’s how social media works.
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.
I love Pixelfed and the federated versions of it.
What’s your Pixelfed account? I’ll give you a cheeky follow
followed :)
I’ll get you back
Touch grass. No really. There’s an ultra high def Instagram for free, for real. /outdoors
But what if you live in an ugly ass place?
Look closer.
Can’t jerk it to hot chicks in public, my guy.
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.
Flickr, Tumblr and Hipstamatic
What virtue signal. These don’t have fact-checking either lmao
