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I don’t use instagram. The article touches on the privacy issues of Meta, but doesn’t really explain why Pixelfed is a better alternative or if it’s more privacy focused. Or even why I should use this platform other than “hey, it’s not Instagram”.
I’d trust some random people running an activity pub server just as much as I’d trust Meta with my personal photos: I won’t.
Coming from Wired, I’d hope the article would have a more technology focused approach, explaining to people they could host their own server so they take back control of their own data. Isn’t that the part of the point of the fediverse?
I’d trust some random people running an activity pub server just as much as I’d trust Meta with my personal photos: I won’t.
I’m pretty sure Pixelfed wasn’t intended to be a place to share your personal photos - it’s meant for sharing photos you want to share with the public - could be a circle of friends or the whole world. Photos like pictures of your cats, food, landscapes etc. It’s a place to share photos with friends, or a place to connect photographers with other photographers.
I’d trust some random people running an activity pub server
ok? then host your own. that’s the fucking beauty of decentralized social media.
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Also glad there are discussions about this. Somehow Lemmy and the Fediverse seem more privacy friendly but it’s just as public as anything on the web - which makes sense, since communities, posts and comments are public anyway. So I’m not sure how it could be more private with the currently design.
There are however protocols that can provide the foundation for more privacy friendly and decentralized applications like Web5 and Solid.
The article is about transitioning from Instagram to Pixelfed, i.e. it’s targeting people who already use Instagram. If an individual is an Instagram user already, then privacy clearly isn’t a consideration for them, and if it was, there are countless articles already regarding Meta’s approach to their data that don’t need to be recycled here.
If your concern is your data, then yes, don’t trust anyone but yourself. As has been said, there’s alternatives for that, including self-hosting.
Pixelfed’s advantages aren’t limited to potential privacy features though, which I agree would have been excellent items to raise in the article, such as a focus on photos and a complete lack of any algorithm forcing tailored content at you. But this is a how-to article, not a feature comparison. I’m sure we’ll see a prevalence of those in the future but it’s still early doors. I would argue that it literally does imply that Pixelfed is more privacy focused though - it’s right there in the title.
Pixelfed is nice but their porn filters just don’t work at all.
I am on the main flagship instance. If you click the explore tab, you see porn. Instantly.
Idk if this is intended or not but until they fix that it simply can’t go mainstream lol.
They still seem to require a real name if I look at the registration process. Kind of a deal breaker to me.
Hi, I’m Dr. Mordecai Tutu on this glorious day.
Greetings, I am Notmyre Alname.
What happens if you put whatever you want in there?
Or start your own instance? Or join an instance that doesn’t care?
