In light of the recent #news that #Instagram's parent #evilcorp #Meta* has a new #AI tool made with billions of #stolen #images I finally decided to not post there anymore 🎉
Check out my #blog (remember blogs? ^__^) on more (and even better) reasons why:
https://blog.jfml.eu/2024/01/11/bye-insta/
* That name is almost as cringe as Elmos obsession with the letter, X isn't it?
@jfml Good for you! Gives me a good model for how to do it myself. I’ve tapered off on posting there for a while and even created a Pixelfed account as a substitute, but haven’t yet settled on how I want to use it: as an alt, for only certain art, etc. Also trying to decide if I want to delete all my posts on Insta.
Yeah, I actually had another look at Pixelfed in preparation of this but for me it (and the available apps) are still missing some essentials that make it really painful for me to use, like going to the top of the timeline instead of where you left when clicking on a post, not being able to mute or block people from the timeline (or at all in one app) etc.
But since this is the #fediverse I can just follow people from #Pixelfed on #Mastodon that has all these features ^__^ ✨
@ottsatwork I can *really* recommend having a Pixelfeld account as a Instagram backup, though. Importing posts from Insta to Pixelfeld worked really well (except for posts that had videos and images but that weren't that many in my case).
