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I use it to share certain activity photos with a small group who aren't on Insta/F (like me). For that, it's great. No expectation that it'll be around forever

I use it to share certain activity photos with a small group who aren't on Insta/F (like me). For that, it's great. No expectation that it'll be around forever -- it's just real time photos of us on vacation in a way that doesn't bombard Messages.

rglullis 5y ago
I get the use case, I don't get why there is a need for yet-another app for it when there group messaging apps can do that. > in a way that doesn't bombard Messages I'm pretty sure that you can just mute notifications from WhatsApp/Telegram/Matrix/XMPP/Messenger-du-jour...
- nicce 5y ago
  It has feed about posts like original Facebook without algorithms. WhatsApp et al. does not have.
  - rglullis 5y ago
    Ah, ok. So then the question becomes "why not Mastodon/Pixelfed/Pleroma", especially now that they are implementing "private group" functionality and you can choose who gets to see your posts (besides the usual public/followers-only/private message)?
    - browningstreet 4y ago
      I’ve thought of standing up my own private mastodon, but asking these people get mastodon accounts for this single use case isn’t really what any of them want. We’re all social media averse, and mastodon is still like a twitter. hallo is private/closed by default and allows for signals and comments.
      - rglullis 4y ago
        Okay, last attempt! Take a look at https://movim.eu/ https://movim.eu/ It's open social media based on XMPP, you can set up your own server if you want.