Submitted by throwaway in lobby (edited )

If it was neatly designed, developed freely and sported a neat GNU license, with all the same features as early Instagram (none of the bullshit, no stories and all that).

An app and a website would be available.

Would you create an account? If you already do have an Instagram account, would you move to the new FOSS platform? Would you try to get your friends to move, too?

e: before I'm pointed to /f/freeasinfreedom, the question is meant for a broader audience than Free Software enthusiasts

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ziq wrote

I don't use Instagram so I guess not.

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wild_liger wrote

I'm just not interested in a platform like Instagram in general.

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surreal wrote

FOSS Narcissism

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ziq wrote

Come to think of it, isn't the whole point of that platform for trendy yuppies to sell useless brands to wannabe trendy yuppies?

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lookin4 wrote

I don't see any benefit using it from a photographers perspective, except when it is easier to install, expand, update and maintain than a blog or static pages.

As a anonymous viewer looking for no specific photographer but photos shot in a specific location, on a specific time, with a specific camera or similar I would use it from time to time.

For the ones who currently seeing a need in Instagram and the like, I think it is pretty cool to solve yet another dependence with proprietary corporations and liberate them.

as early instagram

does that mean commenting photos will be possible for users and non-users alike? how the early version differs from this of today?

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