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All 7 users will be pleased.
8 now that’s it’s foss
Every platform had 8 users at one point!
Pretty sure Google+ only made it to 7
That includes the 5 bots to drive engagement right?
There must've been more than 7 devs working on it right? Right?
There were 15 stakeholders, 1 full time developer and 20 overseas contracted developers with a 12 hour time zone difference from the full time dev. All designs were done in PowerPoint by one of the stakeholders. The single full time developer was only ever able to talk to the PowerPoint design stakeholder, and the other 14 stakeholders communicated through the single PowerPoint stakeholder. Now that I think about it, the 15 stakeholders may have actually just been the 1 stakeholder pretending to be multiple people.
I once had a job that worked like that lol
My favorite joke at that time: why is there a G+ button on Pornhub?! I don't want people to know I use Google+.
I was one of those 7 users, and so was my son that I had not seen since he was 5 days old. We reconnected through g+ after 16 years. It will always hold a special place in my digital heart.
It actually reports about 27K monthly active users and is one of the more popular platforms on the fediverse.
And I still can only get 0 like, 0 comment shaky cam video of a screen capture of ultra zoomed in tiktoks or blasting shitty electronika music at 100dB clipping all to hell with 2005 era Microsoft visualizer videos.
Just like pixelfed, there is no way to discover anyone except the same 10-12 rotation of people they put in explore.
I come back every month or two and swipe through 5-10 to see if anything has changed, but it never has. In the case of loops, the same number of creators, some of which haven't posted a video for almost 8 months are "trending"? Maybe that is where the "active users" number comes from?
I agree with you. It's a cool conecpt, but TikTok and Instagram have their algorithms. Love it or hate it, those apps are great at keeping your eyes glued to the screen. Loops/Pixelfed may be less evil, but they are considerably more boring. I can scroll through loops for a few minutes and when you come back it starts again at the beginning and you see the same videos over again. Also, the scrolling is glitchy.
Fuck Insta. Garbage predatory app that depresses the fuck outta me. Why the fuck would I want an open source version of that? I don’t need social media that badly, I’ll survive just fine without it. Too many people perceive and live their lives through social media and doing it for the gram. Fuck that noise.
Pixelfed is more of the Instagram replacement.
Loops is TikTok focused.
No comment on the rest of your post, just FYI.
When it started, I liked it. It sucked after Meta bought it.
I was a bit heated before, but you're right it wasn't bad in the beginning. But for myself, I ended up using it too much, to the point where I essentially planned out my weekends so I had things to post.
I guess you could say it was some ego-driven nonsense that motivated me to always be online and always having something new and fresh to show and always one upping myself to be bigger and better and bolder photos. But all of that burned me out. And in the end it was all so superficial 90% of the time.
Truthfully, eventually at some point, it just became depressing scrolling endlessly and seeing the best photos any photographer could want. It was just too much. That's not entirely Insta's fault, but also on me for not setting any limits or boundaries. But since uninstalling, my mental health went up noticeably quickly and I never looked back to use it because it serves no need for me.
I liked Instagram when it was a camera alternative app only.
It was my experience when I tried it earlier this year. Around 5 people posting a lot and the other casual users just uploading tik tok videos.