his post on mastodon is here:

https://mastodon.social/@pixelfed/113849098386232034

Dear Mark, I hope this finds you well. I noticed something interesting today - it seems Instagram is blocking links to my little open-source project. You know, the one that lets people share photos without harvesting their personal data or forcing algorithmic feeds on them. I have to admit, I’m flattered. Who would’ve thought a small team of volunteers could build something that would catch your attention? We’re just trying to give people a choice in how they share their memories online. No VCs, no surveillance capitalism, just code and community. Remember when Facebook started? It was about connecting people, not maximizing engagement metrics. Our project might be tiny compared to Instagram, but we’re staying true to that original spirit of social media - giving people control over their online presence without turning them into products. You could’ve ignored us. Instead, by blocking our links, you’ve given us the best endorsement we could ask for. You’ve confirmed what we’ve been saying all along - that big tech is more interested in protecting their walled gardens than fostering genuine innovation. Every time you block a link to our platform, you remind people why we built it in the first place. Your action tells them there are alternatives worth exploring, ones that respect their privacy and agency. So thank you, Mark. You’ve turned our little project into a symbol of resistance against digital monopolies.

    • Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      He thinking about why he isn’t king just like the rest of them. Increasingly we are wondering the same thing. Why is he not like almost almost all past kings. In the past.

    • JaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Oh no.

      Please, for the love of god, think more tactically. This is a brilliant move on Daniel’s part, and a fantastic example for the fediverse more broadly to follow.

    • ThatGuyAgain@social.vivaldi.net
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      6 months ago

      @moineau @gi1242 Until it’s over and their costly empires collapse, would not be the first who ends up broke. Fortune is not like rock, although they try to make it like that, they try to cement their throne … whel empires rise and kings fall. The fall usually starts with decadence and arrogance. He already bought his watch…and for the paradise pd fans “higher hair” 🤭

  • ad_on_is@lemm.eeEnglish
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    6 months ago

    While I really wish for PixelFed to take off, like Mastodon and Lenmy did, the current situation, IMHO, is just confusing to say the least.

    So, here are two pixelfed mobile apps, an older one which is just a wrapper of the web version, and a newer polished one.

    I’ve the new “polished” one installed for a few months now, and it seemes as if it’s development has stalled. The app just feels unfinished at this point.

    Now, I get it, it’s a volunteer project, and there are probably just a handful of people working on it. And this is totally fine, I’m not expecting them to deliver an Instagram clone anytime soon.

    However, a few months ago, they announced “Loops”, with pre-signups and some marketing yada yada… All this, while there’s still an unfinished app for their core product. But, I went ahead and signed up, just to find out, it was just crickets for a few months.

    Then, recently I logged in again (on the web), and saw an they have an App for Loops which seems to be in the works, and upon testing it, I came to the same conclusion, it’s just an unfinished barebones TikTok.

    Again, I’m not ranting about PixelFed, but IMHO, if they want to get serious, they should focus on one thing, until time and resources allow them to explore other things.

    I would love to see it succeed as an alternative.

    • where_am_i@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      6 months ago

      It started so he could creep on girls on their campus. Nerds had hard time to socialize, so they made a digital social network to help them with the cause. Dunno if it did. But his early interviews are creepy af, lol

  • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Everyone with their own domain should set up a 307 Temporary Redirect with some short URI and start publishing it for people to use instead.

  • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
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    6 months ago

    FYI, put two spaces after the end of a paragraph to put whitespace onlrmmym (and any platform that uses markdown).

    Please edit the post

    • jaybone@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Is this actually getting traction outside of the fediverse? If not, I don’t think it achieved Streisand effect.

  • heavydust@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Remember when Facebook started? It was about connecting people

    I remember that it was about abusing the private information of all the “dumb fucks” who created an account.

    The letter is good though, but zucky will still be a billionaire whether he will read it or not.

    • oce 🐆@jlai.luEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Wasn’t it about ranking female students by attractiveness or something?

    • Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Facebook was about, “connecting people” though. It was the first stage in its growth. It was also before monetization and was actively losing money.

      • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
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        6 months ago

        it was always all about the data, even back in the hot-or-not clone days.

      • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 months ago

        It was about growing the user base so more data could be harvested, not about the connections being made.

    • zephorah@lemm.eeEnglish
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      6 months ago

      That’s just it. Zuck could sell off and close shop and live large for the rest of his life. And yet he chooses to fuck around with people instead.

      It’s weird.

      There’s creating. And then there’s harvesting content and creations of others. The former is the only one that makes you interesting.

      • Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 months ago

        When you think about it too you realize these people have nothing good inside them. They seek power because externally people covet power. They covet it because they want control of their own lives but Mark has control and doesn’t fucking get it. He thinks power is inherently good so he steals it all away for himself but no matter how hard he trys he can’t look inward and find anything that means something more than that. It’s truly sad and grotesque. My mind could be set on 100 different paths that would fill me with so much satisfaction that nothing else would matter and mark can’t find one for himself.

    • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      I deleted my account when that came out, so I’ve been Facebook free since something like 2006.

        • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          6 months ago

          Maybe it was 2008 instead of 06? Seemed like it came out very early, I’d only had an account for a year or so I think, shortly after it was opened up outside EDU domains.

    • kautau@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Yeah also facebook started as an evolution of men rating women on his campus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Facebook#Facemash It should be no surprise that zuck has recently started proclaiming that he wants a more masculine corporate identity, it’s been that way from the beginning

      “The Kirkland Facebook (referring to the Kirkland House intranet) is open on my computer desktop, and some of these people have pretty horrendous Facebook pictures. I almost want to put some of these faces next to pictures of farm animals and have people vote on which is more attractive.” - Zuck, 2003

    • LoudWaterHombre@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      6 months ago

      This letter reads like if Zuck was an ideologically driven tech-anarchist that wanted to connect people that became old and fell for the money but that’s not really true lol

    • stoly@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      To be clearer he stole the whole thing because he was always an entitled sack of poo. He never created a thing, just like Elon.

  • Steve@communick.newsEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Smart enough to realize it, but not smart enough to not say it.
    Rather than write a public letter pointing it out, he could have just let it happen.

    When your enemy is helping you, don’t point it out.
    It might encourage them to stop.