How to Leave Instagram(www.a-side.social)
12 pointsby proletarian6 hours ago8 comments
  • jjulius5 hours ago
    This isn't just an article about how to leave Instagram, it's also an ad for an alternative social media network.

    The alternative to social media is not more social media. We could all do with less of it.

    • proletarian5 hours ago
      OP here - agreed. I was rarely posting anyways. I'm personally replacing it with reading even more than A/SIDE. There are just some times I want to share something with friends and family and not fumble with iMessage.
  • proletarian6 hours ago
    Instagram quietly removed E2E end encryption from DMs last week. Wrote this for people who've been looking for a reason to leave.
  • sys_647382 hours ago
    Just stop using it. That's all you need to do.
  • TheChaplain4 hours ago
    There have been an alternative out for a while called Pixelfed (https://pixelfed.org/)

    Tried it for a while but wasn't enough cats.

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  • polotics4 hours ago
    The easiest way to become a non-smoker is to never have started in the first place, it definitely is not switching brand!
  • bilekas5 hours ago
    Too many steps. Honestly just delete your account, the app and forget about it. After a few days the people who matter will text you or find a way to reach you and that's it.
    • specproc5 hours ago
      Yeah, I left Facebook a decade back. Zero issues keeping in touch with folks that mattered. On the rare occasion I need to find someone I lost for something, it's been trivial.
    • proletarian5 hours ago
      OP here - also agreed! A/SIDE is for a middle ground/corner case, at least for me.
  • Tiberium5 hours ago
    AI slop, it's obvious from the text, but just for the confirmation from Pangram (they have an extremely low false positive rate):

    https://www.pangram.com/history/6532dd71-bf24-4fc1-aadd-b97f...

    • Tiberium5 hours ago
      Also it's very funny that they say "No AI training" and "Off big tech" on the home page, yet the landing page and the blog post are clearly entirely LLM-written

      Edit: https://lab1908.com/ "Lab 1908 is a small product studio in Saint Paul, Minnesota. We design and build software — most of it AI-native, all of it shipped — for our own portfolio and a handful of partners."

      • proletarian5 hours ago
        AI absolutely was used to help build and maintain this. (OP here)
  • schlagaloo5 hours ago
    how does this differ from snapchat?