Meta Is Blocking Links to Decentralized Instagram Competitor Pixelfed
Meta Is Blocking Links to Decentralized Instagram Competitor Pixelfed
Pixelfed said it is "seeing unprecedented levels of traffic."Jason Koebler (404 Media)
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Pixelfed said it is "seeing unprecedented levels of traffic."Jason Koebler (404 Media)
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The issue is at the same time as making editorial and commercial decisions about what context is shown to people they rely on legal protections based on the fact they are a common carrier rather than having a degree of editorial control.
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rtxn
in reply to blind3rdeye • • •Facebook started blocking links to Pixelfed, a federated Instagram alternative using ActivityPub - Lemmy.World
lemmy.worldspireghost
in reply to blind3rdeye • • •I don't get why people rush to the next replica platform that will go down the exact same path of overstimulating you / mentally harming you.
Just delete Instagram.
Don't replace it.
blind3rdeye
in reply to spireghost • • •One advantage of Pixelfed is that it not a commercial company. So unlike Instagram, they do not have financial motivation to addict and exploit. So for people who are interested in seeing and sharing picture galleries, that seems like a good option to me.
(Personally I don't use Instagram or Pixelfed, or any other similar service.)
Ulrich
in reply to blind3rdeye • • •nyan
in reply to spireghost • • •I think they get used to the level of stimulation and now feel "wrong" without it. It takes a certain self-awareness to realize that it would be healthier to recalibrate your expectations. (I don't think Pixelfed is a comparatively harmful platform at the moment anyway, although I suppose it could someday become one.)
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TachyonTele
in reply to bitchkat • • •So not .world, it was Facebook?
Edit. Ah! Im slow lol I get you now. FB removed the lemmy link. Thanks
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Unknown parent • • •ryper
in reply to blind3rdeye • • •Meta admits it deleted links to decentralized Instagram competitor Pixelfed
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in reply to ryper • • •AlternateRoute
Unknown parent • • •99% sure that only happened after Sega stopped making competing consoles. IE more game content benefited their console platform
AlternateRoute
Unknown parent • • •console = network, game = content.. is my argument.
IE Nintendo was happy to sell more units with Sega content, and sega moving to software / content had no choice but to sell on other platorms.
Nintendo makes money on EVERY cart sold and every electronic purchase.. it is a major part of their EXPENSIVE model and why Nintendo platform games always seem more expensive. It is also why they still sell cart based systems so they are the ONLY supplier of the media, but now they have their own eStore as well.
Rose
in reply to blind3rdeye • • •Funny thing, Pixelfed isn't even a competitor to Instagram in the very very strictest sense.
Pixelfed is a federated service for posting photos.
Instagram started out as a service for posting photos, but it has become this... thing. I don't even know anymore.
TankovayaDiviziya
in reply to Rose • • •It's very appropriate to call Instagram now.... a thing. The site just became something to post bragadacious, fake rich lifestyle photos, people wanting to become meme themselves, or scantily clad girls looking for attention for themselves if not for their OnlyFans.
TachyonTele
in reply to TankovayaDiviziya • • •bragadacious. I learneded a new english today.
Err I mean. Obviously I already knew the word and it's meaning, and even how to say it. I know a lot of words. People always comment on how many words I know. Im just really smart, to be honest.
Petter1
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in reply to TachyonTele • • •ramirezmike
in reply to TankovayaDiviziya • • •I find it useful for finding local events where I live, updates from local businesses and newspapers.. it's also cool for following artists or bands I care about.
Idk, it's in a weird space between facebook, what twitter used to be and tiktok. It can be useful if you curate your feed right 🤷♂️
Ulrich
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in reply to blind3rdeye • • •I"ve been on Pixelfed for three days and, sadly, it's pretty underwhelming.
I'm going to give it a few weeks though and build up a feed.
ChapulinColorado
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in reply to murph • • •My problem with decentralised social Media currently is that it's entirely unencrypted and publically viewable.
I don't mind so much on services like Lemmy where it's a bit of fun to make comments and post random things without it being directly linked to your identity (though I am aware the content is still likely being scraped by someone somewhere).
I'd really love a Facebook/Instagram replacement, but end-to-end encrypted where only the people you've given permission to can view your content.
No idea how this would be achieved, but PixelFed is pretty useless unless you're posting publically.
Bilb!
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youtu.beMisterFrog
in reply to TotalSonic • • •Nooooooo! That sounded perfect. The app is still up but it's entirely missing from their website :(
Thanks for sharing
oldfart
in reply to MisterFrog • • •There is Diaspora, it is like a federated Facebook with a bit more privacy settings. All crickets now that everyone moved on to Mastodon.
There's encrypted p2p stuff with nice apps like Scuttlebutt with Manyverse app, but nobody uses it.
There's Movim which builds a social network layer over XMPP, so you can share to your contacts. Guess what - nobody uses it.
MisterFrog
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in reply to blind3rdeye • • •Zucky is feeling insecure.
I'd say provide links (maybe in an escape hub page) for all the Meta main service pages, to assert dominance.
If you want to be nasty, track how often those links have been clicked. (Meta can't win. If it's too low, it shows nobody wants to go there. If it's too high, it means people are using the page as a Meta hub.)
ZeroOne
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Unknown parent • • •Petter1
in reply to blind3rdeye • • •UnderpantsWeevil
in reply to Petter1 • • •I'm old enough to remember Nintendo suing GameGenie for making the test codes on their games more broadly accessible. And Apple suing indie firms that made 3rd party peripherals for their devices. Don't forget Microsoft's unholy war on Netscape Navigator, as they deliberately tried to sabotage the popular third party web browser from working via various Microsoft updates. Hell, I think you can find case law in the 1920s on Ford Motor Company fighting spare parts manufacturers and trying to box them out of the industry. Corporate dinosaurs fighting to keep startups from interfacing with their products is a tale as old as time.
Historically, Facebook/Google/Twitter/et al were focused on integrating with common systems, because they were the underdogs struggling against firms like Microsoft and Comcast who were trying to maintain their Walled Garden. Now they're kings of the hill, pushing competition off their doorstep.
Its sleazy and toxic and ultimately bad for the industry as a whole. But its nothing new.
NotMyOldRedditName
in reply to UnderpantsWeevil • • •I would have sworn you wrote McDonalds the first time, and I was like wtf went on there that I had no idea about, until you got to the 2nd Microsoft.
Petter1
in reply to UnderpantsWeevil • • •Yea, antitrust is nothing new, I agree
But musk was first banning specific URLs from being posted on a social network for other reasons than security or piracy.
And as a note, it seems that facebook after all only had a bad spam protection automation rather than malicious intent 🤔
technocrit
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