Yet another centralised social network. That pinky-promises they'll never go bad.
Join now! Bring your friends! No ads! Everything's free! We're indie!...
Moments later... enshitification ensues.
Solves the problem for a few years until Meta buys their users and data back.
Assuming they don't own them already as a sort of pressure valve. Yeah I'm getting that cynical.
Does it seem odd... This is a crowd that is all about "hands off muh property". And yet they see nothing suspicious about someone giving them a free service.
According to their terms and service, everything uploaded to their website is then owned by them. Doesn't seem very artist friendly to me.
Ok, the lady behind Cara just WON a f-ing copywrite lawsuit against some dick that stole her artwork. I'm 100% sure the wording is so if you *think* about stealing from Cara, she will come after your ass with both guns blazing.
Regardless, their terms of service let's Cara not only sell prints and your artwork to third parties but also let's them sell your artwork for AI training if they wanted to.
Instagram for all it's fault specifically says that they don't own your artwork and only get a license to show it.
I don't really care what she won, people tend to cave really fast if given proper financial incentive.
No, it doesn't. It states that the copyrighted works are the property of Cara and/or the artist who created the Works, except where otherwise noted. This specifically would cover cases where someone attempts to claim that a Work they found on Cara isn't copyrighted because a copyright notice wasn't explicitly stated, and doesn't make explicit claims over the ownership of any arbitrary Work. For it to work in the way you're claiming, the "or" cannot be present as it being there implies the existence of Works on the site which Cara does not have property rights to. Who actually possesses the property rights to any given Work is left, apparently intentionally, ambiguous.
I knew that C looked familiar!
They actually seem quite a bit different. The one for Cara isn't perfectly round and seems to suggest a person in the middle.
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.
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..
The official app is available in beta. I’m very impressed w it
So what happend when this app needs to pay server costs for 600,000 people?
Re: the hosting company
Your account does not appear to have spend management enabled, which would allow you to pause your project entirely if you hit a certain level of spend.
So, this is something of a devil's bargain. Either shut down your website just as it's catching fire and gaining traction. Or get billed a year's server budget in a matter of days because of exploding costs.
In a saner world, this might be used as an argument for treating the Internet as a public utility and not a for-profit rent. Perhaps more companies could grow and sustain large pools of customers if they weren't kneecapped by their own momentum.
Instead, I'm sure we're going to see more exotic insurance and finance services designed to siphon money out of websites as a hedge against unexpected growth.
Do you mind telling what this says ? it seems Firefox doesn't load twitter anymore. Or maybe you need an account ? I'm not sure, but it says "error"
"Jingna Zhang @ cara.app/zemotion @zemotion So freaking speechless right now. Seen many @vercel functions stories but first time experiencing such discrepancy vs request logs like, this is cannot be real??"
I've heard from many ppl that vercel is pretty nasty that way, and to only use them for learning and toy projects.
Twitter no longer loads newer tweets if you're logged out. Instead of showing a proper message, it either fails to load or redirects to the login page. They did that to prevent scraping.
Is it federated and open source? If not, I'll pass.
Pixelfed is the alternative we want
Cara has no passwords: you log in via Google or Apple
uhuh, no thanks
So much bad faith, I logged in just fine with a regular e-mail.
It's just a quote from the article, but good to know.
you can use your email
the crowdfunding/patronage of this platform only helps them build their proprietary empire. It's like giving money to your neighbor who wants to build a swimming pool on their property because they promise you'll be able to swim in it.
I'll be watching this curiously from a safe distance for now. I am interested in a new platform without AI, but this stinks of early-stage enshitification.
This will be the headline a month later:
Cara's monthly active users down to a few thousands. Here's why.
What is their monetisation plan? Currently they don't seem to have anything other than donations?
What's a "plan"?
I'm no federated-nazi and I welcome projects like Cara, but at the beginning there are always lots of subscriptions
This is why twitter will never die.
Isn't there already artstation.com? Just had a look at Cara and it looks very similar
Its Instagram mashed up with artstation
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
