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
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    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.

  • Grimy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    According to their terms and service, everything uploaded to their website is then owned by them. Doesn’t seem very artist friendly to me.

  • Prandom_returns@lemm.eeEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Yet another centralised social network. That pinky-promises they’ll never go bad.

    Join now! Bring your friends! No ads! Everything’s free! We’re indie!..

    Moments later… enshitification ensues.