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Re:Instagram is threatening legal action against Pixelfed by busssard on Thursday December 29, 2022 @10:13AM (#34173398)
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...
Re:Instagram is threatening legal action against Pixelfed by ViViDboarder on Thursday December 29, 2022 @12:22PM (#34175046)
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).