For an incidental integration, I’d have to say it’s not bad.

It’s an interesting concept to discuss, but I don’t see a problem in grafting a photo-only community over activitypub.

It beats the alternative of having Instagram remain the dominant player. I mean if you only want to see pictures, you won’t sign up for a service like Mastodon that will serve you text instead.

And I don’t see any need to add a default picture to every post just to get to these people. Let them see their photos if that’s what they want.

It’s still more users for the fediverse and I don’t really see a better way to implement this. Let people enjoy themselves on the fediverse in the way they see fit.

What Bluesky did right was allow you to easily get started with starter packs and block lists. You can have a good feed set up in a few hours versus likely years on Mastodon. And then you can choose if you want algorithms or no algorithms and if you choose that you want one, you can choose which one. Mastodon needs to copy those things and it will be the final destination.