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I've been getting into automotive photography, been doing it for my own interests for years, but as of late, I've been wanting to grow out of it, go it a little more "pro-hobbiest" level and be able to share publicly.

I've tried posting on other social medias like 500px or pixelfed, but no one knows what these are, and people quickly lose interest when I don't give them a Instagram handle or something familiar, especially as where I live everything is IG, so as it stands, the only way I share is in person, face to face and hope people are happy for me to text/email them links to a proton drive, and that goes about as smoothly as you'd imagine, so with that in mind, I'd like to try and see if there is a way I can run a IG account with privacy in mind.

I have a old LG G8s Thinq that I was considering putting another OS on and use only with either home internet or hotspot off of my main phone, use the LG only for Instagram and having all my images stripped of metadata before posting, but wondering what other tips people have in mind if they had to do this themselves. I understand that with anything Meta, true privacy is pretty much impossible, so a good enough solution is well, good enough.

Much appreciated!

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[–] BlindFrog@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

If you're in an urban kinda area, have you considered going to car meets and exchanging Instagram @s ?
Might be helpful to get your insta out there by going where the people already are.

Most if not all my local car meets all advertise their next meet up spot on insta either plainly or by code name. I didn't even post car pics, but organizers here (hawaii :) will follow anyone back, especially if they post car stuff.

[–] BogusCabbage@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

This is exactly the plan. I go to a lot of meets, underground and public eye, so the plan is just to exchange at these events/meets. Currently there is just knowledge of people based on common of appearance and 1 person I have exchanged numbers with, but I have multiple people asking every meet for a IG or that alike asking to see what I shoot, and this is the sole reason of asking the question. I'd love to satisfy these people, be able to give them a page, a "portfolio" they are familiar with, but also somehow still keep my privacy with the systems I use

[–] BlindFrog@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

Ohhh, I read your concern as how to grow in popularity, but... I can't read @.@

I think Litchralee pretty much detailed what I'd do. Use a separate phone, or ig in a browser. My bf had a yolo tablet once, to show his niece how easily "popular" he can get just by posting random cat memes. We learned that if you follow too many accounts at once or get too many follows quickly, they'll block your account until you do a facial scan, so... That was the end of that experiment, lmao.

If you find the people you meet are using bluesky, I can... with hesitancy... recommend wafrn? I only hesitate because the design intent is like tumblr, and I'm not sure if that's your vibe. It's activitypub and atproto compatible, so you can share your one account with both bluesky and fediverse users. You can even spin up your own wafrn instance.
For situational awareness, the alt-text requirement for photos is on by default, but you can turn that off in your wafrn account.
https://wafrn.net/