A new kind of social media is quietly growing in the background—and it’s not owned by Big Tech. Meet the Fediverse, an open-source, privacy-focused way to do social media… You’ve probably heard ...

Remember when Instagram seemed like a good place to showcase your work, connect with photographers, and get yourself on the radar of clients? Well, unfortunately those days are now long gone. Between ...

With more than 2 billion users, Instagram has emerged as the go-to alternative to traditional social media as well as photo and video sharing websites like Facebook, Imgur and others. However, some ...

Baby Elon Musk. Shrimp Jesus. The Titanic colliding with an iceberg lettuce. Social media is saturated with AI slop — low-quality, often ridiculous and sometimes disturbing images, videos, or words ...

There are a million reasons not to use Instagram, from it taking up too much of your time to not wanting to support Mark Zuckerberg. While the best alternative might be just getting off social network ...

Ontario Research Chair of Digital Governance for Social Justice, York University, Canada When Elon Musk acquired Twitter in 2022, many users looked for alternatives, fuelling a wave of online ...

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Jeff Carlson writes about mobile technology for CNET. He is also the author of dozens of how-to books covering a wide spectrum ranging from Apple devices and cameras to photo editing software and ...

Instagram has unveiled two major updates to its platform: increasing the maximum length of Reels to three minutes and introducing vertical profile grids. The announcements were made by Instagram head ...

If you want to share photos of your vacation, you’re likely to share them to Instagram. While the Meta-owned platform is the largest photo-sharing platform on the planet, it doesn’t mean that it doesn ...

Pixelfed has emerged as a breath of fresh air. Now available as official apps on Android and iOS, it offers a decentralized, ad-free alternative to Instagram. This platform empowers users with privacy ...