Comment by egorfine
6 hours ago
I am a happy Instagram user. As a Ukrainian, this is the only connection left with lots of my friends now as we are scattered around the world. And I would happily pay $2.99/m for Instagram to have those better features.
Problem is, facebook WILL raise the prices on these subscriptions every few months until they could not anymore. So I will have to pay probably like $12.99/m in a couple of years.
> this is the only connection left with lots of my friends now as we are scattered around the world
Time to suggest them to join Mastodon and Pixelfed? Relying on a foreign, for-profit megacorp is a bad way to keep contact with friends.
> Time to suggest them to join Mastodon and Pixelfed
Sure. Guess how many of them will actually do it?
> Relying on a foreign, for-profit megacorp is a bad way to keep contact with friends.
I'd say it's exactly the opposite: relying on a foreign, for-profit megacorp is currently the best way to keep contact with friends.
Unfortunately.
> Guess how many of them will actually do it?
That's how much they value your friendship then :)
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Have you had much success migrating entire friend groups over to platforms they’ve never heard of?
I think insisting on using weird products nobody in the real world knows about is a “bad way to keep contact with friends”
I didn't succeed in moving entire friend groups. But I did move some friends, which is good enough.