Is it only for photography nerds at the moment or everyone ?

EDIT :Just want to get my friends to try anything ftom the frediverse and i think pixelfed is the only platform that ordinary people will want to use in the frediverse i aslo want to try it but atm they are not taking temp mails and every instance seems to need a real one which i am not comfortable sharing .

EDIT : Also is there any way i can browse it for some time without making an acc ?

  • ZagorathEnglish
    8•9 months ago

    Also is there any way i can browse it for some time without making an acc ?

    Oh gods this is the worst fucking thing about Instagram. As someone who never had an account there (in my case, less because of the privacy concerns and more just because I value photography more as an art form than the types of things Instagram encouraged, especially in its early days with the square-only limitation and heavy emphasis on filters), whenever I get sent a link to it, it’s just the worst. It manages to somehow be even worse than TikTok is for un-signed-in users.

    • @stackPeek
      1•9 months ago

      It manages to somehow be even worse than TikTok is for un-signed-in users.

      Ikr? It’s so fucking stupid–both Twitter and IG are worse than TikTok in case of this.

      Let’s say you open a random Instagram link. Or a tweet link. You never know whether you will be able to see the link or not, it’s just a random chance in my.experience. If not–I swear this is the stupidest part of this–theyll straight up just show you an ambiguous error message, like “An error happened”. If you really want to push new users to create an account, AT THE VERY LEAST SHOW A ACCOUNT SIGN UP PAGE DAMN IT!!!. God damn, software are getting worse every day, and this comes from a programmer. Software tooling are better than ever, but these companies will continue enshittify their product! Damn.