Everything you need to know about the AI-free social media platform for artists.

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

  • BroBot9000@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2486·
    5 months ago

    Join Pixelfed instead!

    Cara is just another fucking centralized social media that’s gonna get run to the ground the moment they can monetize their user base.

    • bionicjoey@lemmy.caEnglish
      10213·
      5 months ago

      Artists are mostly not going to figure out the fediverse. There really needs to be some kind of way of accessing it that is more layman friendly if we ever want it to be adopted by non-nerds

      • BroBot9000@lemmy.worldEnglish
        353·
        5 months ago

        It’s really not that complicated and with shit like Threads, companies are introducing the concept to the masses while the enshittification of Instagram and the like will force people to look for alternatives.

        We need to welcome people with open arms and not push them away the moment someone has a question about how federation works.

        • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
          19·
          5 months ago

          Threads is only federated in name. It’s simply Meta’s taking advantage of Twitter’s downfall. It’s as centralized and under Meta’s thumb as they come.

          • BroBot9000@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            5 months ago

            Still introduces the concept and will make people aware of other instances.

            Definitely avoid it but it’s still publicly for federation.

          • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
            8·
            5 months ago

            Yep. I bet good money federation remains unidirectional and opt-in. All to pretend to comply with DMA, just like they are with WhatsApp.

          • dan@upvote.auEnglish
            1·
            5 months ago

            Threads is federated though. You can follow Threads accounts on Mastodon. It’s still a work in progress though, and not everything is implemented yet.

        • bionicjoey@lemmy.caEnglish
          183·
          5 months ago

          Nah. But anything more complicated than a MacBook scares most people away. Most people aren’t down with anything that isn’t a turnkey experience

          • Bahalex@lemmy.worldEnglish
            21·
            5 months ago

            Most of these artists use fairly complicated, or difficult to master, software to create and/or edit their art.

            Signing up for and uploading images to a website isn’t really complicated.

            • Psych@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
              211·
              5 months ago

              If only there were a filter to filter out gatekeepers like you . You do know your sabotaging your favorite platforms by being like this right ?

      • Omniraptor@lemm.eeEnglish
        9·
        5 months ago

        Idk I hear misskey (activitypub micro blogging software, compatible but distinct from mastodon) is really big in Japan, used by lots of artists. lots of Japanese users on bluesky as well

    • small44@lemmy.worldEnglish
      214·
      5 months ago

      Cara is popular because of it’s anti ai stance. They have a detector to not allow ai images to be on the platform. Pixelfed allows it and also lack active users that are not artists.

      • BroBot9000@lemmy.worldEnglish
        191·
        5 months ago

        For now.

        Ai support or not it will still be aggressively monetized the moment enough users are locked in.

        Fomo is a hell of a drug eh.

    • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
      121·
      5 months ago

      If Pixelfed actually siloed itself into its own network it would make a lot of sense. As is, it’s chock full of pictures and text from Mastodon and other federated platforms that are not remotely artistic in nature.

      The whole idea of IG, in it’s infancy, before being taken blatantly and completely off the rails by Meta, was to have photographers and artists and beautiful content.

      On top of that, it’s just a copy-paste of IG, including all the dumb shit.

      And on top of all of that, it lacks any of the copyright and AI protections that Cara is squarely aimed at.

    • elgordino@fedia.io
      6·
      5 months ago

      If they keep burning $100k/w on their Vercel bill they might not be around that long anyway!

    • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nlEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      I tried but there is no app for it.

      Fdroid has pixeldroid which is apparently incompatible with my android 12 phone?

      The pixelfed app isn’t downloadable on Fdroid and is only available for “pre-download” on the play store.

      I couldn’t find out how to access pixelfed through a mastodon app.

      If it isn’t easily accessible through mobile, it simply won’t be picked up.