What is Cara, the Instagram alternative that gained 600k users in a week? - eviltoast

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

  • Sabata@ani.social
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    5 months ago

    Solves the problem for a few years until Meta buys their users and data back.

    • Murdoc@sh.itjust.works
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      5 months ago

      Assuming they don’t own them already as a sort of pressure valve. Yeah I’m getting that cynical.