Meta is getting rid of factchecking. If you want to leave Instagram, what are your alternatives?
Meta is getting rid of factchecking. If you want to leave Instagram, what are your alternatives?
Meta is getting rid of factchecking. Should you leave Instagram – and what are the alternatives?
“[For] people who live in the country or in remote areas or minority groups or [who have] small businesses, that is a really good way for them to communicate and reach other people,” she says.
“It’s just not possible to set up an alternative at this point in time. So, to put it bluntly, we’re in a bit of deep shit, to be honest.”
No mention of Pixelfed, but I can understand why. Will it only be seen as an alternative once a critical mass of users move there? And can that happen if they don't see it as an alternative? Chicken and egg. I'm trying out, but it's a little vapid when everyone I know is on Instagram.
.... 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.
It's not just younger people. A lot of my fellow GenXers only communicate via Facebook messenger.
It's why nobody left Whatsapp when Meta bought it.
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.
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.
Ding ding
Getting info on events and businesses is so much tougher now that I don't regularly use Facebook. I missed both holiday garbage pickups because my county waste management company ONLY posts schedules on Facebook.
I understand that logic, but "being the product" must not really be that bad for them. They might complain, but if it was truly distasteful, they'd do something about it.
And being exploited for profit and explicitly knowing it is about the saddest thing I can think of for my fellow humans. It's no wonder the billionaires just take and take, because people let them.
I don't use anything besides discord and my phone number. People that care enough know how to get in touch with me.
This stuff was happening even in the early days of Facebook let alone now so I get it.
Rather than tell bullying victims to get off social media, why not tell people to stop bullying people?
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.
and just like FB, reddit, xitter, tiktok, et al, you're not. it's just another place for the vainest, most vapid, self-absorbed fucktards to post pictures of their lunch (in between selfies)
-post pictures of their lunch
That was Instagram 5-7 years ago.
It's just american TikTok now
Yep I was thinking the same. I guess it's a generational thing. Instagram is maybe like water to some young people, can't be without it or life is sad.
No, it's not because life without Instagram is sad. Read the other reply for a real reason. People stay on platforms to keep in touch with others and those others do the same.
It's only "generational" because half the world didn't grow up with the Internet as their primary form of communication. But I'm against that label because it's true for anyone who uses a service a lot.
I would LOVE to stop using Discord but there's no way I'm convincing all my friends to run two chat programs (Matrix for me, Discord for their other friends)
How else am i supposed to get in touch with the sexy babes?
Just turn off your ad blocker, they're already trying to get in touch with you
when it's your main place to see friends photos, and where all your friends already are its difficult to just not use it.
you don't use it and never have, so naturally you won't feel left out. but those that use it frequently absolutely will.
the old curmudgeon "These dern kids and thur instagrams!" isn't really all that helpful, I feel.
i was addicted to facebook. i started getting away by just not looking at it for longer periods of time: 1 day, 1 week, month, etc. it stayed like that for a long time. then i went through and deleted everything i ever posted, replied, commented-- yes it took forever, but it ended up as just a blank profile with my name on it. finally i deactivated the account, then deleted it
time wasted on facebook: way too fucking much
time spent regretting deleting it: absolute zero
i've seen enough vacation/cat/baby photos to last 10 lifetimes, and if my friends can't talk to me through texting, then i guess they must not have anything important to say
fuck facebook
i'm just glad i immediately found insta, twitter, tiktok, all the other bullshits boring and pointless right off the bat, so never dealt with those