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Instagram is like 15 different things at once.
Its a messaging service with a TikTok like video service and a pixelfed like photo sharing service.
There’s pixelfed!
"But all the other lemmings are there! I can't leave or I'll be left at the top of the cliff by myself!" 🙄 Guess what, there's more of us up here who aren't jumping than you realize.
Sorry to be harsh, but that's how I feel about it when people say they have no choice but to enrich these social media oligarchs by participating in their exploitation machines. By contributing their "content" to be collected, sold, used for training their generative AIs, by viewing their ads, and by making themselves targets to be manipulated by propaganda of all kinds.
They already exploit us enough in ways we can't control, without us willingly participating in their schemes.
The Guardian cannot spell "Mastodon", it seems from this "article".
“what’s your alternative?” the answer is always lemmy am i right guys 😎
Always has been
Talk to people?
They don‘t talk back. Too busy browsing their phone.
.... just don't use instagram?
I never have, and I don't feel like I'm missing out
I asked a younger coworker something similar about Facebook and facebook messenger a few years ago in relation to cyber bullying. I asked her why the younger generation doesn’t just get off social media if they’re being bullied, and her response was that these platforms are how people communicate now. Without them, you don’t find out about parties, trips, events, etc. Without them you get left out. If you abandon them, you’re essentially ostracizing yourself.
After hearing that I understood why just giving them up is difficult.
Can confirm. I'm a bit older, but when I stopped using social media it was like my aquaintances forgot I existed. Sure, close friends would usually still invite me to social events, but even that tapered off after a while. When I'd call someone out for not inviting me, their response was always "but you never shiw up to anything". It's not like they don't know that I'm not on Facebook. What, you think that when you don't invite me that I'll just magically know it's happening? I'm finally getting some people to use Signal groups but that has been an uphill battle.
Without them, you don’t find out about parties, trips, events, etc.
Ding ding
It's not just younger people. A lot of my fellow GenXers only communicate via Facebook messenger.
Rather than tell bullying victims to get off social media, why not tell people to stop bullying people?
I dunno. But you didn’t say it.
It's why nobody left Whatsapp when Meta bought it.
As soon as they're forced to allow interoperability with other apps, I'll be deleting WhatsApp. Had a Facebook from the beginning but deleted it when the Cambridge Analytica scandal happened. Have never had an Instagram. Fuck Meta and its horrible owner.
i hate it, but we are gonna be slow boiled into having meta read everything we say over there if we aint already
I'm betting you are.
Why wouldn't they?
I agree up to the point that someone could use Facebook for the parties and stuff, and then not use any of the main page stuff. I have Messenger because that's the prime option for those I know, but I don't use it for anything but messaging and don't have a Facebook.
I’ve had a facebook account since it was first unleashed on the world, but these days I only use it for messenger and marketplace. I’ve changed all my privacy settings to as strict as they can possibly be, and I never browse or post anything.
For a while, it was full of pictures. Only pictures. That "lunch" thing was trendy but not at all the main content. Whatever you wanted, it was there. It was no different than any other platform. Some great content, some bullshit. Now it's shitty "reels", ads, and fraud. You'd have to sift through a lot of forced garbage to find your subscribed content.
If you are interested in photography there are alternatives.
Will it only be seen as an alternative once a critical mass of users move there?
I mean, yeah? That's how social media works.
Flickr, Tumblr and Hipstamatic
What virtue signal. These don't have fact-checking either lmao
