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I always welcome new alternatives. I am not happy with pixelfed . Instead of focusing on what it distinguish it from other platform and focus on the photography Dansup focuses instead on adding DM's, stories, improving videos features etc that have nothing to do with photography and pictures
Alternatives are great... when they're not garbage. This Monnett thing IS garbage. It's not about about features, it's about the approach and data control.
Pixelfed is an open platform, just as other Fediverse projects. I don't need their app, I don't need their account. I can just open https://pixelfed.social/dansup and see his posts. Or I can add https://pixelfed.social/users/dansup.atom to my RSS reader. Or I can do
curl -H 'Accept: application/json' https://pixelfed.social/users/dansupand get JSON. Or I can follow him from literally any other ActivityPub-enabled service. I can do whatever the hell I want.When I open https://share.monnett.social/u/monnett I see this shit:
This is literally the same loginwalled garbage as Instagram. No, it's not even the same. It's fucking worse. Because even Instagram gives you at least some sensible format:
It's shit. But you can work around it (for now).
This Monnett garbage doesn't even give you that. It's closed and hostile from the very beginning. And forces you to install its shitty app. Which does what? You guessed it right! Which tracks every your fucking fart with... TADA!... US-powered Google Ad Services:
Conclusion: this piece of shit is not an alternative. It's an EU-washed crap that is actually worse than the mainstream social services. So yes, avoid at all cost.
An alternative just mean it has a similar concept. It doesn't mean the alternative platform can't be trash
Technically, yes, agree. Practically — it's just a distraction from something that can actually have a good impact. Same as other EU-washed tech, e.g. Office EU.