No, social media is not just for pictures.
But if someone is using it just for pictures and you try to sell them on a service that isn't fitting to their use case, that's on you if they're not interested.
Know your audience. Offer them alternatives that actually fit their preferences, not yours.
Maybe checkout Pixelfed, which is (from what I gather) similar to what instagram was 10 years ago
This made me check on how pixelfed has been faring, since I remember them going through a huge boom recently - and to my joy, they still have a very large (for fediverse standards) community, they even rebounded a bit from the initial drop of people leaving after trying it out!
Oooh they were talking about Image filters...
My brain defaulted to keyword filters etc
Well, I did think about keyword filters due to the post saying Lemmy, but if the post said Pixelfed I was immediately think of image filters. Depends on the service.
Wait how do I use the cat filter
Insert a hose into a cat mouth, turn on water and wait until the water will leak from the other side of the cat filter.
Several major instances have a cat@ community.
There's a keyword filter and an NSFW filter
Can filter out selected communities and users too
Not sure the problem is your sister, as much as it is your conflating the fediverse with Lemmy. As others have mentioned, the appropriate response here seems to be a link to Pixelfed rather than frustration at someone using social media differently than you. You wouldn’t try to force an IG user to join Reddit if that’s not their thing.
Yes, this has been a problem with FOSS. Linux is only getting popular because the UX has advanced beyond "developer UX", and Windows has declined into corp uselessness, and Mac doesn't do what's actually needed for half of the people. That's how this works because users are normal people. Either you adapt or you gatekeep. Both approaches are valid, but you don't get to complain about your choice.
The Fediverse will see mass adoption when it matches the actual features people want. Think about this: Foursquare was a great local social media. But the moment their big feature - the check-in - got added into Facebook and Nextdoor, usage dropped like a rock. People go where the most features are presented most conveniently. Privacy is a "nice-to-have". If I'm already sharing pictures of myself from a phone, I want it to automatically read the EXIF data and pick up the geolocation and other stuff. I expect filters that are doing the intense work on the server rather than my device (and for free [as in beer]). I want easy sharing and tagging, and a way to put myself in front of my friends and especially in front of my rivals.
If the platform you're pushing doesn't have those features, it's not fit for purpose. Remember - iStock, Pexels, Imgur, Flickr, DeviantArt, Pixiv, Pinterest, Instagram, and Snapchat all have different purposes, even though they all perform the same basic function: hosting and serving pictures. It's the feature set that matters, not the core function. Don't ask yourself "what does this thing basically do?", but rather, "what will people want to do with this thing?".
Ich iel when I see beans in jeans
I didn't expect to see my boi Thurston today. RIP you crazy son of cat.
Thunder client has good filtering.edit: pixelfed
I think she meant image filters, like the ones that change colors.
thank you. until i got to your comment, i had no idea what was meant by 'filters'
It has a nice filter where it excludes people that roll their eyes when they hear words like "federation".
