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What is Cara, the Instagram alternative that gained 600k users in a week?

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

stufkes ,

Isn't there already artstation.com? Just had a look at Cara and it looks very similar

johannesvanderwhales ,

Its Instagram mashed up with artstation

nasi_goreng ,
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There was anti-AI art campaign a few months back by Artstation user due to Artstation allowing them.

Nighed ,
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What is their monetisation plan? Currently they don't seem to have anything other than donations?

Prandom_returns ,

What's a "plan"?

Schal330 ,

You'll have to ask the company that eventually buys them out!

afraid_of_zombies ,

I did and they said selling user data, promoting certain content, targeted ads, superchats, and a checkmark thing that costs five dollars a month that only 4 people get.

samus12345 ,
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I knew that C looked familiar!

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Cartoon_Network_2010_logo.svg/1200px-Cartoon_Network_2010_logo.svg.png

SomethingBurger ,
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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Open_Source_Initiative.svg/457px-Open_Source_Initiative.svg.png

johannesvanderwhales ,

They actually seem quite a bit different. The one for Cara isn't perfectly round and seems to suggest a person in the middle.

samus12345 ,
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Yeah, they're different, but "white circular C on a black background" just made me think of the CN one.

gedaliyah ,
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Pixelfed looks like they are doing a huge push to get up to speed. It has been an immature app/platform for a long time and slow to get the features that people need from a photo sharing social media.

According to their mastodon, they are working for better AI management features, and launching an app that will make it a genuinely positive experience.

HootinNHollerin , (edited )

The official app is available in beta. I’m very impressed w it

ams ,

I really want Pixelfed to take off and this really could have been a moment, but after using it for more than a year now, I just can't see it. Development is very slow - it feels like a one-man show (it might not be). We do need an alternative to Instagram, but yeah..

JeeBaiChow ,

...until they decide to sell their company. Or their user data. Or the shareholders say so. Or...

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