who's gonna build me atproto instagram, man? every single interaction in that app sucks to use. you can actively feel zuckerberg fighting you whenever you try to do anything other than look at brands
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There’s a lot I still like about Instagram, but I noticed I keep getting funneled to Threads, “o, this seems like the beginning of an interesting story… a few minutes late and I’m wondering why I’m in such a drab place.
I use Instagram, because it's where all the parkour athletes are, for some godforsaken reason. If you could convince them to move elsewhere, I'd definitely follow.
Okay, so I hope all of you are aware of the #fediverse. It's run using "Activity Pub", it's another popular federation protocol like atproto, and is responsible for stuff like mastodon and lemmy, and they have a insta alternative already!
I agree with this take, I think it can be a good way to harness short form content and make it more useful long term. Their are so many content creators I see on Tiktok that I think would be great to have in the fediverse!
Just imagine the possibilities with a self-hostable Tiktok alternative!
You could say the same thing about twitter, insta and other corpo stuff. But they were improved with fedi alts. Let's see maybe, it could be better with loops.
I’ve thought about this, and in principle it shouldn’t be very hard to whip something up. The challenge, however, is in the moderation and keeping people safe. That is very hard to engineer and will be the bulk of the headache.
they added the highlight feature and have spent every waking second making it worse. it's like they're mad people started using it to organize memories of their kids and have tried to make using it as user-hostile as possible
That would be great! I can't wait for the thriving of the AT protocol. If Bluesky keeps going well, it will likely attract more and more people working on it.
I remember when Instagram was first released, I loved it because I could scroll through all the cool pictures my friends posted once per day and miss nothing.
the core problem is that it would have to be built by someone who likes instagram, and people who like instagram don't know how to read and write, which is a prerequisite for making a website
I've been so mad for years that they got rid of "new" in hashtags. I never search anything anymore because the same posts will come up, and what's the point?
atproto is still pretty young, not yet stable, and I think a fair bit more expensive to host than activitypub, so this might not be a realistic wish for a while
build me a wireframe, it's just a GUI but would need to find a way to make the pictures decentralized instead of having a backend holding onto anything but references.
It’s so bad. I don’t mind the ads but it’s not showing anything new almost too locked into the algorithm if that makes sense. Search doesn’t work for shit either.
Yeah it's a nightmare now. I asked about why there are so many pins of things I made that don't have my name and don't connect to any board or pinner, and after misunderstanding me a number of times said they would get back to me, then closed out my request.
I just want to share photos with my friends but I have to fight the algorithm to be seen at all 🥲 please I am not trying to market content I just want my friends to look at my cats
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https://pixelfed.org
https://loops.video/
If anything we should be using the opportunity that the success of Bluesky/similar is presenting to push back away from short form nothing content
So it won't grow fast lol but it will be better long term
Just imagine the possibilities with a self-hostable Tiktok alternative!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification