Like the question implies, I really want too get off of instagram. Its not the same space anymore, especially with the consistent push from Meta to use AI. Ive even made my profile private so those features don’t automatically turn on. Its gotten crazy there.
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Loops. It’s basically Instagram videos without ads. Currently kinda weird. But there’s some people there.
Going outside
The limitation of smaller platforms like Pixelfed is that basically no one uses them. If you are using Instagram to keep track of people in your local community you are unlikely to find anything else.
do you actually see people from your local community tho?
genuinely asking. i haven’t logged in to ig in years.
Some how this slipped through the cracks among all the other suggestions, but PixelFed is sort of the only fedi photo blog alternative.
Technically there’s also Misskey/Sharkey, but that’s more of a Pinterest alternative, as well as Friendica for a Facebook alternative and Mastodon for a Twitter alternative.
And GoToSocial is the nearest Fediverse alternative to the ‘old web,’ as it were, but you need to host that yourself.
Misskey/Sharkey being similar to Pinterest??? Has Pinterest changed that much in about 4 years, cause that’s when I last used it (ads ad AI art chased me off)
Miss/Sharkey is more like Twitter but if it was pretty/customizable and with a pinch of overstimulation imo. The JP origins is what gives it the overstimulation (the reaction emotes, oh my god…)
I don’t really think any popular Fedi platform is similar to Pinterest tbh.
I thought Misskey/Sharkey was specifically trying to be a Pinterest alternative, while Pixelfed is trying to be an IG alternative and Mastodon is trying to be a Twitter alternative.
I’d personally say most of those are “microblog” styled interfaces, but I can’t actually provide a clear cut definitional difference between “photo blog” and “micro blog” other than a vibes based thing about including photos in EVERY post or not.
But yeah, love all the options we have. I was just talking with someone about missing Web 1.0, I’ll have to check out GoToSocial and spin it up on my hardware.
YT even has PeerTube as an alternative, and one I wish more people would use as Google inevitably locks down YT further.
Yeah! I like PeerTube. I want to start posting there, but I’m struggling to find the time to edit together videos.
Just downloaded pixelfed. Youse guys are either corrupting me or leading me to my inevitable evolution
One of us, one of us, one of us…
Already uploaded me first pic (a shot of my eldest cat. I’m a stereotype waiting to happen)
Yay more people to join Pixelfed!
You’d probably like Pixelfed, it’s part of the Fediverse.
Since nobody mentioned it yet, Pixelfed.
Just in case no one has said it, Pixelfed
I personally like Pixelfed
Pixelfed.
Pixelfed.
Pixelfed
Not the standard answer, but here’s another opinion: I think Signal is a good alternative.
Depends on how you use Instagram. If you’re just sharing with closed groups of friends and family then just make some groups in Signal and share pictures with each other there.
If you want to post to everyone or look at everyone else’s posts then this obviously isnt going to work. But if your use case is as I describe above then just try using your private chat app.
Can someone easily merge from Google Messages to Signal? I’ve heard of signal and im also looking for another message alternative; more so for that and insta. Pixelfed is really catching my eye for insta.
How do you mean merge?
It’s basically another messenger.
Signal is a great app to replace your messenger with. Keep in mind that it doesn’t save whatever media you post there in your gallery.
Matrix is another solution, but you’d have to self host that. I have no experience with it.
Threema is a swiss app which I think was pretty privacy respecting as well? It doesn’t use phone numbers either IIRC.
Like Google unfortunately uses RCS and everyone i know uses RCS because either they have apple or are using Google messages with RCS. So if I was to go to Signal for example, would my chats transfer over or would I have to start over because RCS is not used?
Signal used to do text messaging as well but they removed the feature. As they felt it was unclear when a message was fully encrypted ( signal message ) and when it wasnt ( text /RCS message ).
I don’t think there’s a privacy friendly chat app that also does RCS.
Maybe, Pixelfed.
