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Good for them to call out bullying to spread awareness of their product.

I like how you call this bullying, when all they did was rip off another company's product interface 1:1 and then cried foul when they got called on it. Imagine it were reversed. If a large and well financed corp released a product that was an exact copy of a small company's product, you'd blame the bigCorp for stealing the work and using their industry position to annihilate the small company.

Then again, I guess nobody gets fired for bashing Meta. (In this one case, I'm actually on Meta's side. Might be a second time for me)

i mean there are thousand of small photo sharing apps, and instagram was hardly the first... Naming the filters the same seems a bit stupid though...

Yea. That’s the part that is ripped. Making a new photo sharing app shouldn’t be controversial.

I like Pixelfed, but it was naive to rip the filter names and think that was somehow ok. It was also a totally unnecessary thing to copy. An imitation filter could be called anything and people will be able to tell (assuming you did a good enough job imitating).

Bullying? Really?

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