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How to Move Your Instagram Feed to Pixelfed, the Photo App That Doesn't Track Your Every Move (www.wired.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 10 months ago (8 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's nice to see someone questioning these things and not ignoring the fact that you'd still have to use the platform even for self hosting. There's been a lot of mastodon instances of people acting in bad faith, there was even someone who had the FBI take their hard drive with everyone's posts on it. This isn't inherently safer at all it's just not run by those large corporations. What about hosting something where people in other countries have different laws? No one seems to talk about that much either. Also the guy who made mastodon wants to partner with Meta anyway and people are arguing in favor of that. What was the point? On lemmy, are the posts truly deleted if you can recover them or if there is a backlog of comments and changes sitting somewhere? This isn't for people who care about privacy and it's not discussed enough and oftentimes when it is it seems the person or people get piled on and it goes nowhere.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.

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