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What is Cara, the Instagram alternative that gained 600k users in a week?
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Join Pixelfed instead!
Cara is just another fucking centralized social media that’s gonna get run to the ground the moment they can monetize their user base.
Artists are mostly not going to figure out the fediverse. There really needs to be some kind of way of accessing it that is more layman friendly if we ever want it to be adopted by non-nerds
It’s really not that complicated and with shit like Threads, companies are introducing the concept to the masses while the enshittification of Instagram and the like will force people to look for alternatives.
We need to welcome people with open arms and not push them away the moment someone has a question about how federation works.
Threads is only federated in name. It's simply Meta's taking advantage of Twitter's downfall. It's as centralized and under Meta's thumb as they come.
Still introduces the concept and will make people aware of other instances.
Definitely avoid it but it’s still publicly for federation.
Yep. I bet good money federation remains unidirectional and opt-in. All to pretend to comply with DMA, just like they are with WhatsApp.
Threads is federated though. You can follow Threads accounts on Mastodon. It's still a work in progress though, and not everything is implemented yet.
You say that like this shit is hard to use.
Nah. But anything more complicated than a MacBook scares most people away. Most people aren't down with anything that isn't a turnkey experience
Most of these artists use fairly complicated, or difficult to master, software to create and/or edit their art.
Signing up for and uploading images to a website isn’t really complicated.
It's good. It acts as a filter.
If only there were a filter to filter out gatekeepers like you . You do know your sabotaging your favorite platforms by being like this right ?
I'm not gatekeeping anyone. Everyone's welcome.
Well you do sound a lot like a gatekeeper for someone who isn't gatekeeper .
Ah yes, gatekeeping with "Everyone's welcome". 🤡
Nice face .
Nice argument.
Tnx you too
The artist and nerd Venn diagram is practically a circle around my parts.
Idk I hear misskey (activitypub micro blogging software, compatible but distinct from mastodon) is really big in Japan, used by lots of artists. lots of Japanese users on bluesky as well
Pixelfed is pretty damn easy.
Might help to make tutorial vids for fediverse stuff.
Cara is popular because of it's anti ai stance. They have a detector to not allow ai images to be on the platform. Pixelfed allows it and also lack active users that are not artists.
For now.
Ai support or not it will still be aggressively monetized the moment enough users are locked in.
Fomo is a hell of a drug eh.
If Pixelfed actually siloed itself into its own network it would make a lot of sense. As is, it's chock full of pictures and text from Mastodon and other federated platforms that are not remotely artistic in nature.
The whole idea of IG, in it's infancy, before being taken blatantly and completely off the rails by Meta, was to have photographers and artists and beautiful content.
On top of that, it's just a copy-paste of IG, including all the dumb shit.
And on top of all of that, it lacks any of the copyright and AI protections that Cara is squarely aimed at.
If they keep burning $100k/w on their Vercel bill they might not be around that long anyway!
I tried but there is no app for it.
Fdroid has pixeldroid which is apparently incompatible with my android 12 phone?
The pixelfed app isn't downloadable on Fdroid and is only available for "pre-download" on the play store.
I couldn't find out how to access pixelfed through a mastodon app.
If it isn't easily accessible through mobile, it simply won't be picked up.
There are multiple third party apps and the official versions are available in open beta. For both android and iOS.
https://pixelfed.org/mobile-apps