I’ve been thinking through how to leave Facebook’s Instagram service since June, when I finally deleted my central Facebook account. This should be easy, because I don’t post that much on Instagram, but it always seems hard because it’s the best user experience (IMO) on mobile for writing a ...
Prior to that I’d always been a big fan of Aaron Parecki’s OwnYourGram, though I understand that Instagram was limiting his crawler, so the service may not be taking new accounts.
While I know some of the people behind Pixelfed and generally trust them, I don’t think I would use it as a solution unless I was standing up my own instance of the service. Far too many Mastodon instances have gone down for me to trust a particular sites’ admins. Apparently Mastodon has made it easier to move from one instance to another, but I’m not sure how this may or may not apply to Pixelfed.
Presently, my money is on Matthias Pfefferle’s ActivityPub plugin which adds support to a WordPress site to act as a stand-alone member of the Fediverse. While it’s beta software, it works fairly well and is evolving impressively over the past year or so. I suspect that photo support will improve to put it on par with solutions like Pixelfed, particularly when combined with the ease of use of some of the Micropub photo posting applications that are out there.
I’d feel remiss if I didn’t mention that another option for exiting Instagram (or at least backing it up to your own site even if you don’t leave completely) is to try Beau Lebens’ Keyring Social Importers plugin. I know a few who have used and liked it for its Instagram and other social silo support.
I’m sure there are other methods out there as well and many might be found on the IndiwWeb wiki pages for “Instagram” or “photo”.
I like the Keyring Social Importer a lot than other options is that you can integrate it with Post Kinds plugin with just a couple of lines in the code (https://github.com/xavierroy/keyring-social-importers/blob/17eb04d2655ff4df41ead74d764fa9e50b9d1595/importers/keyring-importer-instagram.php#L291 & https://github.com/xavierroy/keyring-social-importers/blob/17eb04d2655ff4df41ead74d764fa9e50b9d1595/importers/keyring-importer-instagram.php#L294).
Thanks for the tip Xavier. I think the last time I played with Keyring, there wasn’t a Post Kinds Plugin.
BTW, if you find it useful, I think this snippet of CSS in your style.css file should hide the superfluous title in your replies. (Similar ones can be thrown in to add other kinds.)
.kind-reply .entry-title, {display:none}The ActivityPub Plugin is already compatible with PixelFed. It currently shows only posts with pictures and the picture mechanism in the WordPress plugin is not that good yet… but it works 😉
I tried jtsternberg/DsgnWrks-Instagram-Importer, but the authentication process throws up an error. I would assume that may relate to the ‘violation’? Might need to try Keyring Social Importer.