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App came out and looking super solid <333
Funny how it was outrageous when Musk did it, and now it’s already common and accepted…
I’m old enough to remember Nintendo suing GameGenie for making the test codes on their games more broadly accessible. And Apple suing indie firms that made 3rd party peripherals for their devices. Don’t forget Microsoft’s unholy war on Netscape Navigator, as they deliberately tried to sabotage the popular third party web browser from working via various Microsoft updates. Hell, I think you can find case law in the 1920s on Ford Motor Company fighting spare parts manufacturers and trying to box them out of the industry. Corporate dinosaurs fighting to keep startups from interfacing with their products is a tale as old as time.
Historically, Facebook/Google/Twitter/et al were focused on integrating with common systems, because they were the underdogs struggling against firms like Microsoft and Comcast who were trying to maintain their Walled Garden. Now they’re kings of the hill, pushing competition off their doorstep.
Its sleazy and toxic and ultimately bad for the industry as a whole. But its nothing new.
This is why we gotta ban TikTok!!! \s
Zucky is feeling insecure.
I’d say provide links (maybe in an escape hub page) for all the Meta main service pages, to assert dominance.
If you want to be nasty, track how often those links have been clicked. (Meta can’t win. If it’s too low, it shows nobody wants to go there. If it’s too high, it means people are using the page as a Meta hub.)
Funny thing, Pixelfed isn’t even a competitor to Instagram in the very very strictest sense.
Pixelfed is a federated service for posting photos.
Instagram started out as a service for posting photos, but it has become this… thing. I don’t even know anymore.
Instagram started out as a camera filter app. Then you could post pictures. When I first downloaded it to my iPhone 3 it was only a filter. I was very confused when I tried it again on android years later.
You don’t even see photos anymore. It is 99% videos at this point.
And the 1% is adverts?
The adverts are videos also
but it has become this… thing.
It’s very appropriate to call Instagram now… a thing. The site just became something to post bragadacious, fake rich lifestyle photos, people wanting to become meme themselves, or scantily clad girls looking for attention for themselves if not for their OnlyFans.
I find it useful for finding local events where I live, updates from local businesses and newspapers… it’s also cool for following artists or bands I care about.
Idk, it’s in a weird space between facebook, what twitter used to be and tiktok. It can be useful if you curate your feed right 🤷♂️
bragadacious. I learneded a new english today.
Err I mean. Obviously I already knew the word and it’s meaning, and even how to say it. I know a lot of words. People always comment on how many words I know. Im just really smart, to be honest.
Only the best words?
Ok
whoosh
Owned by someone almost no one likes, shoves 1000s of ads down your throat, can’t even look at something someone else sent you because you don’t have an account. Why are people leaving???
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I"ve been on Pixelfed for three days and, sadly, it’s pretty underwhelming.
I’m going to give it a few weeks though and build up a feed.
Remember, there is no algorithm pushing people towards you, look around, follow people, and see who they follow.
Follow hashtags for things you’re interested in too.
Lemmy was pretty sparse on posts not that long ago. Time can help.
Old enough to remember when you could get to the “end of Twitter”, because you’d swiped through all the active posts of the day.
Was?
You might be spending too much time on Lemmy if you’re still finding it lacking in content. Unless you’re referring to the amount of content in niche communities, in which case I’d agree.
Quality over quantity
Yeah, right.
Try MetaPixl
Yeah sadly there’s not much people on there.
I haven’t heard of PixelFed, but thanks for informing me and I shall go!
Oof looks like they’re down for the count on top of it
Of course they are
Not, it isn’t. It was most likely a spam filter. Images and longer messages work fine.
If you’re running an instance why not just cut the shit and block Meta?
Absent present context, that sentence suggests a degree and quality of corporate self-awareness that one can only dream of.
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We are in the then they fight you stage.
Lemmy.world too. At least in admin chat.
When?
Last week. Was is admin chat talking about moving a group to lemmy. And FB deleted admin chat posts containing links to lemmy.world.
So not .world, it was Facebook?
Edit. Ah! Im slow lol I get you now. FB removed the lemmy link. Thanks
hah thanks for your line of questioning. I too initially thought they were saying LW was blocking PixelFed.
