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Instagram is gaslighting Pixelfed, the open source federated alternative

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Re: Instagram is gaslighting Pixelfed, the open source federated alternative

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If you try to put a link to Telegram or Snapchat in your Instagram profile, Instagram will tell you that it's "not supported".

It's very simple; Instagram doesn't support using their network to grow another network, and it's tiring when people pretend like this is something new.

Re: Instagram is gaslighting Pixelfed, the open source federated alternative

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post #11

If you try to put a link to Telegram or Snapchat in your Instagram profile, Instagram will tell you that it's "not supported". It's very simple; Instagram doesn't support using their network to grow another network, and it's tiring when people pretend like this is something new.

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Re: Instagram is gaslighting Pixelfed, the open source federated alternative

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why should customers of a service put up with that service censoring their mentions of other services?

We're not the customers, the advertisers are. And so far the advertisers don't care about this kind of censorship. Try to get customer service as a non-paying user on Meta platforms, it's horrible and you rarely interact with a real person.

OK, then pretend I said "users" instead of "customers".

Re: Instagram is gaslighting Pixelfed, the open source federated alternative

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>Instagram is gaslighting Pixelfed >Before they try to gaslight us I like how the linked account is using the term correctly (which has lost its meaning in the recent years) but OP is using it wrong in the title

And that there was no gaslighting going on. The title turned hypothetical into actual. Which means it was the poster that was lying (but not gaslighting).

It sounds like Instagram was blocking a Pixelfed tag. They removed the block and Pixelfed is saying they have proof so Instagram can't lie about it. Instagram hasn't lied and probably hasn't said anything about it.

Re: Instagram is gaslighting Pixelfed, the open source federated alternative

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

We're not the customers, the advertisers are. And so far the advertisers don't care about this kind of censorship. Try to get customer service as a non-paying user on Meta platforms, it's horrible and you rarely interact with a real person.

OK, then pretend I said "users" instead of "customers".

It's now like going to Musk's corporate breakroom plastered in sponsors rather than "the internet's town square" as it used to be described.

Re: Instagram is gaslighting Pixelfed, the open source federated alternative

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post #11

If you try to put a link to Telegram or Snapchat in your Instagram profile, Instagram will tell you that it's "not supported". It's very simple; Instagram doesn't support using their network to grow another network, and it's tiring when people pretend like this is something new.

It's very interesting that tiktok allows adding links to twitter/instagram/youtube and other sites right at the profile page.

Re: Instagram is gaslighting Pixelfed, the open source federated alternative

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Huh. I'm a photographer, and I'd never heard of Pixelfed before this. Now I've created an account on a server and am seriously considering setting up my own server (or servers) specific to the genres I practice.

If you do, consider patching out parts of the image optimization pipeline that strips your color profiles and the EXIF data. The platform isn't really geared towards photography photography or it would hold onto such data.
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