I go there when I want to see hot takes from unruly relatives. Never to participate - only to watch from afar. Oh, and marketplace is alright I guess if you can weed through the scam listings.
I am only talk to friends and some interest groups. I don't post my art there except for friends once in a while. But even my friends don't seem to see my posts anymore. I really rather hate FB. My feed there is mostly adverts and FB suggested posts. No real engagement. Yuck.
I guess two reasons—one is simply not wanting to feed that content machine. The other is the concern that some gallery owners won’t show work that’s already been seen on the internet. I struggle from day to day with how much I care about that world but haven’t abandoned it.
I have instagram auto-post to Facebook so my friends who are still there see my recent work... but then they send me a message and I don't respond for a month because I so rarely go there 😆
I'm still using Facebook. What's great about Facebook is that the postings hit my interest areas pretty well, and the pictures blow up to a full size on my PC screen when I click on one. So far, the content on Bluesky is way less interesting to me.
I have an account, but don't post much actively - its pretty much just for sharing an occasional family news and wish happy birthday to some old schoolmates. Even groups wise - I feel that Flickr has better groups than FB, just wish they'd be more active.
I like Facebook because of their groups, but I'm on the fourth day with Instagram preventing me posting until after about thirty tries and now it's playing up again, that I simply don't trust Meta anything. Facebook, Insta, Threads will all be copy and paste to media only. I dont trust Meta anymore.
Last week I notified my "friends" I will no longer post photos there or on IG. Began deleting posted photos (what a pain in the ass process). Asked them to meet me here on Bluesky🖖
That's a good question. I don't see many photographers flocking to Bluesky yet. Instagram has a strong grip on photoland, and Facebook too. It makes sense because everyone is already hanging out there — why try a new channel? I'm eager to see Bluesky grow and hope more artists embrace this space.
For a bit threads was like twitter of yore, then the current twitter people turned up 🗑️🔥
Bluesky is still ok for now and blocking seems to work, plus you can subscribe to block lists.
IG is just awful to use. Post, post, gambling/suspicious finance ad, post, suspicious ad.
Stopped posting there a few years ago but keep my account to browse on occasion.
If threads goes the same way likely I’ll do the same.
My family still uses FB, so for communication purposes, I'll not delete the apps.
IMO, IG was/is akin to having thousands of Chefs all wanting to cook for one restaurant at the same time. The Chefs all learn each other's recipes, but there are not enough foodies to eat all the food.
Really? That's great. I share links on Facebook from time to time, but I can never tell if it helps to drive readers my way. That's one of the reasons I'm interested in Bluesky. The links!
The links don’t work well so I stopped sharing them but people know my website by now so I just abbreviate the site name. Now a lot of my traffic is direct.
I have a mostly inactive account. I did use Facebook marketplace to sell something recently, but it was the worst. So many people agreed on a price then ghosted.
Not me. I left in 2018. When you quit they give you* all your info, pics, messages, comments, in fact all your FB interactions in a handy, searchable html file. Very useful when I want to check a birthday or an address. (You have to ask)
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Does that answer your question? 😂
gone
Not sure how many will take me up on it.
Bluesky is still ok for now and blocking seems to work, plus you can subscribe to block lists.
Stopped posting there a few years ago but keep my account to browse on occasion.
If threads goes the same way likely I’ll do the same.
IMO, IG was/is akin to having thousands of Chefs all wanting to cook for one restaurant at the same time. The Chefs all learn each other's recipes, but there are not enough foodies to eat all the food.