.... just don't use instagram?

I never have, and I don't feel like I'm missing out

Facebook/meta should never have been allowed to buy Instagram.

Will it only be seen as an alternative once a critical mass of users move there?

I mean, yeah? That's how social media works.

“what’s your alternative?” the answer is always lemmy am i right guys 😎

Pixelfed is a federated image-sharing network.

Gotta hop on that pixelfed!

https://portfolio.pixelfed.social/randombullet

Flickr, Tumblr and Hipstamatic

What virtue signal. These don't have fact-checking either lmao

Talk to people?

I love Pixelfed and the federated versions of it.

I use Instagram only to follow my friends, does pixelfed have private accounts ?

Just.... Don't use it. It's easy. I don't even know what Instagram actually is.

"But all the other lemmings are there! I can't leave or I'll be left at the top of the cliff by myself!" 🙄 Guess what, there's more of us up here who aren't jumping than you realize.

Sorry to be harsh, but that's how I feel about it when people say they have no choice but to enrich these social media oligarchs by participating in their exploitation machines. By contributing their "content" to be collected, sold, used for training their generative AIs, by viewing their ads, and by making themselves targets to be manipulated by propaganda of all kinds.

They already exploit us enough in ways we can't control, without us willingly participating in their schemes.

the fact that people are so obsessed with social media that they cant even realize the simple option of just stopping all together really says how toxic and addictive social media is.

Instagram is like 15 different things at once.

Its a messaging service with a TikTok like video service and a pixelfed like photo sharing service.

The Guardian cannot spell "Mastodon", it seems from this "article".

There’s pixelfed!

You could just not share every little scrap of your mundane lives in its full photographic glory?

We really don't need to see another picture of a coffee with a little swirl on top, next to a mass produced bun.

Life?