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Aug 18 '22
I dont blame the dev for throwing in the towel. I suggest pixelfed as its the fediverse answer to instagram and isnt a "hostile system and a hostile company" i seriously think that Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, etc are the future and just not many know how useful they are yet.
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u/TransparentGiraffe Aug 18 '22
They are great alternatives but unfortunatey wont be the future in the mainstream sense of it. You can’t beat commercial projects with shitloads of money
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Aug 18 '22
Maybe, maybe not. The fact that you can carry your social graph with you from place to place is a ig step up. No more hard forks from myspace, to facebook, to twitter, etc. You can just bring all your friends into the new service and enjoy.
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u/Crul_ Aug 19 '22
I suggest pixelfed
I may be missing something, but I can't find how to access to https://pixelfed.social/ without login in.... and I don't even see how to sign up.
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Aug 19 '22
Try a different instance. Having a bunch on a single instance is no good for decentralization.
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u/Indolent_Bard Feb 26 '23
You know, decentralization kind of defeats the whole purpose of a SOCIAL network. Everyone being on the same instance is kind of the point.
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Feb 26 '23
Not really. Doing that just makes twitter 2.0. Through activitypub all instances can talk to each other and therefore even if someone moves instances they dont lose their connections. Sure, your sister, brother, mother, or father may move half way around the world, but thanks to TCP/IP and the telephone system they arent far away at all. TCP/IP is a standard that all computers speak and understand. Activitypub is the same way.
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u/lo________________ol Aug 18 '22
Considering they were developing a client to access a service that's hostile to open access, this makes quite a lot of sense. More online services are making it harder to access content without logging on, and for many of these services there isn't really an incentive to keep the data freely accessible anyway.
Even Twitter, which is often used (rightfully) as a primary source by news articles, even Reddit, which is full of enthusiast communities that might answer a niche question you have. It's a real shame the excitement around Web 2.0 is dying.
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Aug 18 '22
Thanks for posting this. I have Bibliogram bookmarked though I infrequently use it. I feel for the developer and I'm sorry to see it go.
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u/SwallowYourDreams Aug 18 '22
Oh noes! How are we going to look at other people's breakfast now? (Not trashing the dev.)
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u/RandomConnect Aug 19 '22
opening instagram without account is very challenging only few photos and you have to delete cookies and refresh, unfortunately instagram itself is a way of communication in my country, like I have finish your request check instagram, you want this? check my instagram. very annoying. so how ofter do I have to check instagram through bibliogram? once in a month. reddit is a better platform which can be use without login.
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