Alternatives are great… when they’re not garbage. This Monnett thing IS garbage. It’s not about about features, it’s about the approach and data control.

Pixelfed is an open platform, just as other Fediverse projects. I don’t need their app, I don’t need their account. I can just open pixelfed.social/dansup and see his posts. Or I can add pixelfed.social/users/dansup.atom to my RSS reader. Or I can do curl -H ‘Accept: application/json’ https://pixelfed.social/users/dansup and get JSON. Or I can follow him from literally any other ActivityPub-enabled service. I can do whatever the hell I want.

When I open share.monnett.social/u/monnett I see this shit:

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This is literally the same loginwalled garbage as Instagram. No, it’s not even the same. It’s fucking worse. Because even Instagram gives you at least some sensible format:

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It’s shit. But you can work around it (for now).

This Monnett garbage doesn’t even give you that. It’s closed and hostile from the very beginning. And forces you to install its shitty app. Which does what? You guessed it right! Which tracks every your fucking fart with… TADA!.. US-powered Google Ad Services:

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Conclusion: this piece of shit is not an alternative. It’s an EU-washed crap that is actually worse than the mainstream social services. So yes, avoid at all cost.