It’s early days, but if federated photosharing sites like Grain can gain enough critical mass I think all our timelines and feed content consumption would be better off. I look forward to the day that Meta products and most of the other social media platforms of its era are analogous to the supermarket checkout tabloid in terms of its presence in my media ecosystem: an amusing and occasional distraction I notice in passing and for which I have no necessity to perpetuate by purchasing.

Inspired by this blog post from Nick Heer, I took a closer look at Grain and also Flashes. I’ve prototyped support for Grain in Micro.blog and will ship it today. Flashes mostly piggybacks on existing Bluesky lexicon, so doesn’t really need special support from what I can tell.