Is there any public instance, where I could use function “import from instagram”?

Im looking for general instance, preferably hosted in Europe

  • lovingisliving@anarchist.nexusEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I am working on a new platform that allows import from facebook/instagram. This is a hard technical problem for the fediverse because you have to balance importing with not spamming everyone with those imports. It is an important feature though, and it’s rather shocking that little to no fediverse platforms are utilizing the GDPR exports to their advantage.

    • Kkk2237pl@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Another platform? Isnt Pixelfed / Monnett enough? ;)

      In the end I thought that I will just set up new own Pixelfed instance, and I will import everything and fix dates if needed

      • lovingisliving@anarchist.nexusEnglish
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        2 days ago

        What I am building is more of a Facebook competitor than an Instagram competitor. If all you need is an Instagram like platform, then pixelfed should be fine.

                  • abeorch@friendica.ginestes.es
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                    12 hours ago

                    @lovingisliving Well I have but my family aren’t massive social media users so its pretty lightweight activity. I guess my experience is that friendica has a lot of features in there - I like groups and events myself but also I found myself looking at how one account can manage another - I thin this would be great for parent/child accounts - perhaps it might need a few more controls around what the child account can/cannot do …

                    I’m actually not far from creating another friendica instance just as a ‘trial’ server for people I know who want to try it out.

                    I wish I was more capable in taking ideas for features that I would find useful and turning them into deliverable things. I’m a Business Analyst so I can define the requirements but I need some dev friends to help me out doing the delivery.

              • lovingisliving@anarchist.nexusEnglish
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                13 hours ago

                It’s almost too many to list, but off the top of my head:

                • General “jank”, from how community search works to how events work. It’s massive technical debt that is more work to fix than it would be to just start over.
                • Lack of professional branding or vision. It looks like it is run by some random people on the Internet rather than an actual group that has a plan or vision.
                • UI is extremely outdated and unintuitive

                I also have an idea of how I think the platform should work at a fundamental level that is different from how friendica approaches things.