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What is Cara, the Instagram alternative that gained 600k users in a week? (www.creativebloq.com)
submitted 2 years ago by ekZepp@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Key points:

  • Cara's Rapid Growth: The app gained 600,000 users in a week

  • Artists Leaving Instagram: The controversy around Instagram using images to train AI led many artists to seek an alternative

  • Cara's Features: The app is designed specifically for artists and offers a 'Portfolio' feature. Users can tag fields, mediums, project types, categories, and software used to create their work

  • While Cara has grown quickly, it is still tiny compared to Instagram's massive user base of two billion.

  • Glaze Integration: Cara is working on integrating Glaze directly in the app to provide users with an easy way to protect their work from be used by any AI

more about: https://blog.cara.app/blog/cara-glaze-about

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[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Artists are mostly not going to figure out the fediverse. There really needs to be some kind of way of accessing it that is more layman friendly if we ever want it to be adopted by non-nerds

[–] Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 2 years ago

Artists are perfectly able to use the fediverse, that is not what is stopping them.

They don't come because they need to be where their fans are. That is why Cara will only be a splash: their niche is artists who place more value on the anti-AI slant than on meeting their audience where it lives. By definition that is not conducive to a lot of organic growth.

[–] PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

The artist and nerd Venn diagram is practically a circle around my parts.

[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It’s really not that complicated and with shit like Threads, companies are introducing the concept to the masses while the enshittification of Instagram and the like will force people to look for alternatives.

We need to welcome people with open arms and not push them away the moment someone has a question about how federation works.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Threads is only federated in name. It's simply Meta's taking advantage of Twitter's downfall. It's as centralized and under Meta's thumb as they come.

[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Still introduces the concept and will make people aware of other instances.

Definitely avoid it but it’s still publicly for federation.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You say that like this shit is hard to use.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nah. But anything more complicated than a MacBook scares most people away. Most people aren't down with anything that isn't a turnkey experience

[–] Prandom_returns@lemm.ee -1 points 2 years ago

It's good. It acts as a filter.