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      I was about to say, there’s this thing called PIXELFED!! Thanks for beating me to it! Like with other Federated services there are numerous PIxelfed instances:

      https://pixelfed.org/servers

      and a mobile app for iOS and Android

      https://pixelfed.org/mobile-apps

      As well as 3rd Party Apps - Pixeldroid and Fedilab on the Android side

      Tusker ( I thought that was beer) for iOS.

      And it all works on Mastodon (and related apps) as well

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      6 years of development and it’s still not on the App Store. The sole developer is also working on a whatsapp alternative, a tiktok alternative, and fediverse database api. Pixelfed wont ever compete with instagram like this, and the name doesnt help.

      After facebook changed their TOS to allow them to train their ai on peoples pictures the instagram style app Cara became the 5th most popular app and gained 300,000 users in a week. Not a single person has heard of or moved to pixelfed during this.

      We and the pixelfed developer should be helping Cara integrate activitypub and open source their app so the pixelfed developer can focus on one project instead of 4

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          It’s long and confusing imo. I really don’t like banes that include the tech in the name. I dont want to use a platform that only wants to attract tech nerds like me i want people who know things about things i know little or nothing about too. Even a completely irrelevant name like Lemmy is great because it’s short, easy to spell, easy to remember, and is appealing to anyone.

          Stuff like forgejo, pixelfed, etc aren’t memorable or convenient. I understand it’s “federated pixels” but i still don’t like it

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      Yes, PixelFed is awesome! Currently in TestFlight but will be available in App and Play Stores by the end of the month.

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      I would drop insta in a heartbeat and switch to literally anything else, but unfortunately no one putting up pictures or video of my hobbies (the only thing I use insta for) uses anything else. Frustrating, but at the moment, my only option is to just quit insta and not switch to anything new since there’s no content out there. Still considering going that route though, since insta has become super annoying to use.