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

[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.

[nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip]

Here's an idea: Some people enjoy sharing things for close friends and family with a single post. Also helps building lost connection. There are already private Pixelfed instance for close family only.

SMS and email only works for single or small group interaction.

[nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip]

Usage levels is depends on different community.

At least in Indonesia and other SEA countries, WhatsApp stories has widespread usage.
All of my family (especially older ones) are regularly share things there, even just saying "Good Morning" or their daily activities.

[fundmecfsresearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

I was in a group like that at one point for countering COVID disinformation.

The best solution we found was a private discord server on an invite only basis.

For the fediverse, Matrix works well.

[3dmvr@lemm.ee]

well that was them robbing snapchat either way, I do want loops to intergrate with it for video, I like reels, the algorithim is very good, my main page only gets funny stuff, my 3d page only gets cool art (sadly a ton of loweffort ai these days, i still like high effort ai mixed with simulations)

[3dmvr@lemm.ee]

Does it have chat groups and dms? That not being in mastadon is why I wont tell my friends to use it.