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Whats a good alternative to Instagram? (lemmus.org)

submitted 1 day ago by Ripley_Tripley@lemmus.org to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Like the question implies, I really want too get off of instagram. Its not the same space anymore, especially with the consistent push from Meta to use AI. Ive even made my profile private so those features don't automatically turn on. Its gotten crazy there.

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[–] fluckx@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

How do you mean merge?

It's basically another messenger.

Signal is a great app to replace your messenger with. Keep in mind that it doesn't save whatever media you post there in your gallery.

Matrix is another solution, but you'd have to self host that. I have no experience with it.

Threema is a swiss app which I think was pretty privacy respecting as well? It doesn't use phone numbers either IIRC.

[–] Ripley_Tripley@lemmus.org 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Like Google unfortunately uses RCS and everyone i know uses RCS because either they have apple or are using Google messages with RCS. So if I was to go to Signal for example, would my chats transfer over or would I have to start over because RCS is not used?

[–] fluckx@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

Signal used to do text messaging as well but they removed the feature. As they felt it was unclear when a message was fully encrypted ( signal message ) and when it wasnt ( text /RCS message ).

I don't think there's a privacy friendly chat app that also does RCS.