this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2025
955 points (99.5% liked)

Fediverse

29070 readers
1748 users here now

A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to [email protected]!

Rules

Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration), Search Lemmy

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

I almost never look at the app store but I popped in today in the wake of the TikTok ban and was shocked to see this.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

(I assume 5 year olds know what Instagram is)

ELInot5 what Instagram is?

Seriously, I've never understood the point of it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I don't really understand it either. I think it's dumb. And I think PixelFed is dumb. And Mastodon. And Loops. But I'm glad they exist. Everyone is better off if people start switching. Everyone except Meta.

I'm happy with Lemmy+Photon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

It's a place to post your photos cropped into squares. You can get gratification there because all your friends have to like your photos.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Seriously, I've never understood the point of it.

To sell Ads, like most commercial meida eg newspaper, TV etc etc. Flogging advertising makes money for metas stockholders and others.