Foto, an Instagram-like photo-sharing platform and alternative
28 June 2025
While I am (slowly, very slowly) working to host my snapshot photos here on disassociated, I couldn’t resist signing up for Foto, a new Instagram-like photography platform.
Unlike similar platforms, Foto offers posts in chronological order, free of adverts. Foto also undertakes not to crop any images uploaded by members. Revenue will be generated by yet to come pro features, which members can opt for if they so desire.
Describing Foto as new is not completely accurate though, as the startup has been around for close to three years. In that time, it has, according to a welcome email I received, worked with sixteen-thousand testers (an impressive number), since going into beta about eighteen months ago.
There is, at the moment, in my early hours on the platform, an encouraging degree of interaction.
Despite only having one follower at present, the five photos (including the one above) I have so far posted have garnered up to half a dozen likes, from people I don’t even know. How often does something like that happen on the other, algorithm-saturated, platform?
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