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What is Cara, the Instagram alternative that gained 600k users in a week? (www.creativebloq.com)

submitted 6 months 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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[-] TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml 18 points 6 months ago

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 11 points 6 months ago

Sounds like another pan

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

🤷 all we have to do is keep moving faster than our waste stream.

Platform has cool ideas, gets users, gets greedy, gets infected with bots and scammers, users leave for new platform with cool ideas....

Accept the idea that you are not going to have a thirty year old Yahoo Answers account and even if you did you won't be using it, and make peace with it.

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

This exactly. And also the more splintered similar user bases are, the better

More competition, less easy to enshittify a "captured" user base

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