[dheera]

Meanwhile, I do a lot of photography and haven't posted anything in the past 2 years on Instagram because the AI garbage and influencer garbage now gets more attention than real photos of places on Earth you can actually go to. It feels not worth my time to post anything, considering how much effort it takes to post, time posts, and find hashtag soup, because if you don't do all of that, the platform doesn't show your images to people anyway.

[socalgal2]

switch to another platform? flickr? 500px? Or did you just want the likes? I still post a curated set of my photos to flickr. All CC licensed FWIW. There's no AI/influencer stuff there.

[dheera]

Nobody I know looks at those platforms. 500px is filled with bots, Flickr is unknown to people under 30. If humans don't look at it, it's not worth my time either.

I want a platform that real humans, including some sizeable chunk of my social circle, look at, and is filled with real content.

[agent531c]

Agreed, once Instagram started favoring reels/video, I stopped posting my photography there.

Ive been looking at using Photo.glass, but the subscription cost puts me off a bit emotionally after having been told to believe that 'social media is free' from the tech oligarchs. Logically though, I know that it theoretically attracts a higher bar of photographers who are willing to pay entry/support a new form of ad-free internet through that subscription - Similar to the idea of paid search engines.

[agent531c]

I only just realized that the site is actually https://glass.photo/, not photo.glass. I can't edit the comment now, but the suggested domain in the original comment leads to some spam site. Don't recommend visiting it