CNET: Fed Up With Instagram? How to Move Your Photos to Pixelfed

[grumpyduckling@sh.itjust.works]

After seeing that the creator of Pixelfed is also the single Deb dev of two other big projects and is trying to crowdsourse money for it, in a bit hesitant until they allow other people to work on the project and make sure it's not just a pump and dump.

[mipadaitu@lemmy.world]

I'm confused about signal stories. I tried to use it while I was on vacation, but it looked like I had to push it to people? You definitely have to whitelist who can see it.

[spaduf@slrpnk.net]

Crossposted over to reddit. Posting here worked really well last time so:

If you're on reddit and don't mind being a fediverse evangelist, please go hit this thread:

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[spaduf@slrpnk.net]

They've gained several maintainers since it took off! Hopefully Dansup can transition to a more sustainable model soon though.

[blaze@feddit.org]

We should probably have a dedicated community for that

[spaduf@slrpnk.net]

Eh I'm not sure this is something we should be doing normally, but I'm thinking of this moment as more or less an emergency. That said, I certainly wouldn't mind a place to share resources and graphics for getting people switched over.

[joyjoy@lemm.ee]

The only reason I even have an instagram account is because my apartment did virtual tours with it during COVID. No big deal for me to archive all my non-existent posts

[spaduf@slrpnk.net]

What I notice is that people really like the ‘my story’ functionality of instagram. It’s a nice way to share some random stuff, without it being on the internet ‘exposed forever and for everybody’. And you can share also something with only close friends, or just followers, etc

It does have stories just not supported in the official app yet.

[blaze@feddit.org]

Yeah, that could be considered brigading, and Reddit might monitor that and just remove entire threads

[jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world]

Occasional comments here and there are probably better.