Crossposted over to reddit. Posting here worked really well last time so:
If you’re on reddit and don’t mind being a fediverse evangelist, please go hit this thread:
https://reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1i7kbvt/fed_up_with_instagram_how_to_move_your_photos_to/
We should probably have a dedicated community for that
Eh I’m not sure this is something we should be doing normally, but I’m thinking of this moment as more or less an emergency. That said, I certainly wouldn’t mind a place to share resources and graphics for getting people switched over.
Yeah, that could be considered brigading, and Reddit might monitor that and just remove entire threads
I was in a group like that at one point for countering COVID disinformation.
The best solution we found was a private discord server on an invite only basis.
For the fediverse, Matrix works well.
Occasional comments here and there are probably better.
Here’s an idea: Save your photos on your phone or computer. Back them up periodically. Send them over SMS or email to your friends and family if you think they’re worth sharing. Stop relying on social media to give the the dopamine rush that you could be getting by actually doing something useful.
Here’s an idea: Some people enjoy sharing things for close friends and family with a single post. Also helps building lost connection. There are already private Pixelfed instance for close family only.
SMS and email only works for single or small group interaction.
Does that mean that every instance is populated with my photos? Meaning, if I change instances or mine goes down, will I still have my pics?
I don’t think so, at least when I scroll my pixelfed feed it loads images from various domains.
There is a procedure for migrating profiles and posts to new instances, if the old instance is still up.
And on the admin side, there’s established time frames and grace periods for server closures. Barring a big disaster, you’ll have time to move your stuff.
After seeing that the creator of Pixelfed is also the single Deb dev of two other big projects and is trying to crowdsourse money for it, in a bit hesitant until they allow other people to work on the project and make sure it’s not just a pump and dump.
They’ve gained several maintainers since it took off! Hopefully Dansup can transition to a more sustainable model soon though.
Oh neat, the Fediverse is on a CNET article lmao, now we just need to make it to the NYT or something lolol
The only reason I even have an instagram account is because my apartment did virtual tours with it during COVID. No big deal for me to archive all my non-existent posts :)
sadly the main thing that keeps me from switching to most decentralised things is the lack of a private account.
