The problem with leaving IG behind is all my friends are on there. None of them are on Pixelfed.
Famous people with hundreds of thousands followers could change this. They have the critical mass. Their followers will automatically follow. Does anybody have direct access to such people? Who can then spread the word in those circles…🫤
EDIT : I meant celebrities, not influencers.

  • FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    9 days ago

    I don’t agree with that take. I’m quite happy the celebs are not on it. It’s about appreciating nice pictures, the way Insta was in the beginning. I’m quite okay without the endless self-promotion packaged as insights into their lives #ad see link in bio crap.

    The fediverse as a whole will grow slowly but steadily and one day in the future the trend will come to us. Whether it’s run on Mastodon, by extension Pixelfed, Bluesky, or something new.

    I also don’t think that if, hypothetically, today Taylor Swift abandoned corporate social media and started posting on the Activity Pub branches, this would move the needle much. Yes, a bunch of people would sign up for accounts out of curiosity but they will just as quickly abandon those. Because most people are not used to or are willing to invest the time to craft their own timeline and thus grow bored. The bigger hurdle is ease of onboarding, not lack of a-listers.

    • doesit@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      4·
      9 days ago

      Thanks for your take. I use IG almost exclusively for keeping in touch with long distance friends or people from the past (like ex-colleagues). That’s what makes PF useless for me as well at the moment. None of them are on PF. But I hate feeding Meta so it can manipulate me better. Not to mention give my data to Palantir and the like.
      I meant celebs indeed. Personally, I think Taylor Swift could make the difference. She would be perfect for what I meant.

      • FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.websiteEnglish
        3·
        9 days ago

        For keeping in touch with friends I’d suggest getting them onto Signal. Until a few weeks ago maybe also Discord but that ship has sailed down the gulf of age verification to the Bermuda triangle and rests alongside Telegram on the bottom of the sea now. You’ll have more success getting people into Signal than onto the fediverse. Pixelfed DMs aren’t encrypted so for keeping in touch with friends it maybe isn’t the ideal platform either.

        I only run a business account on Instagram. It’s on an old phone that never had any Meta apps installed on it, runs on it’s own WiFi via constant VPN under a fake identity. Describing this process as cumbersome is an understatement. But you could lurch like that for all the friends you cannot convince to move elsewhere and not give meta more real data.