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I really wish there was a good alternative for Instagram. I use it a lot to post my pictures, mostly as a journal to look at old memories. For browsing pictures and sharing with people it still has a relatively uncluttered interface. Lately they added a lot of cruft like IGTV that I would disable if I could but I haven't found a better app so far. Maybe Flickr?

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There is, it's called a blog. See https://ownyourgram.com/ .

A site with a unchanged bootstrap Stylesheet is hardly what I would could a good looking interface or alternative unfortunately.

How is this an alternative if it still requires posting to Instagram?

Yeah, I used to love Flickr. It became another great victim of attention economy apps whose business models are based on exploitation of one of the basic human needs (I would say) - the need for drawing an attention. Pity.

Flickr acquired by Smugmug, by the way - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16888876

The acquisition news are the only reason why I even consider them. I’m curious how it continues and was glad to hear that.

Photos on iOS. It has shared and sharable galleries, even has the Memories app along with a lot of other cool stuff. If you want Snapchatty type stuff, there’s Clips.

There also aren’t ads or tracking.

Same here. We need another Everpix-like platform.

Without the "amazing journey" of course.

you should check out https://vsco.co/

Yea, I use this app already. Mostly for the editing part but the whole interface feels like an art project and for me always seems to be pretty annoying to navigate.

I'm carefully optimistic that at some point we'll get a IG alternative based on something like ActivityPub with different clients to connect to. One can always dream.

Mastodon today could be used to power this. All instagram does is have an app.

I think the app is the important part, building the best backend doesn’t help you if you don’t have any decent apps for iOS and Android.

That’s the problem that most new social networks have. I’m not using Mastodon because there’s no good looking iOS app. If Tweetbot would ship an app that works with Mastodon I would probably use it. Back when App.net was around some famous Twitter apps did just that but I think they got burned because it never took off and now nobody is doing it again until it’s more established.

Meanwhile, there's stacks of Mastadon clients on F-Droid.

You should definitely check out https://pixelfed.org/ (with https://pixelfed.social/ being a good example instance)

I’m already watching the Github project, I’m very excited about the project. I really hope there’ll be a good app at some point. Thanks for posting that again.

Have you successfully used pixelfed.social?

https://pixelfed.social/register is returnins a 403 for me and the Support/Help page appears blank.

Ah, seems like it may not be fully released yet?

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