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Re:Instagram is threatening legal action against Pixelfed by aendruk on Thursday December 29, 2022 @11:18AM (#34174168)
What are the names of the filters? I’m not familiar with either app and the commit “renaming” them only inserts the letter `i` in a UI template.
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Re:Instagram is threatening legal action against Pixelfed by kemayo on Thursday December 29, 2022 @11:27AM (#34174273)
This person submitted a pull request to actually-rename them, which conveniently shows the full list: https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/pull/4038/files
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Re:Instagram is threatening legal action against Pixelfed by aendruk on Thursday December 29, 2022 @11:41AM (#34174478)
Forty arbitrary, artsy words that sound like they could have come from a fashion brand name generator. Yeah that’s not “being sued over css”.
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Re:Instagram is threatening legal action against Pixelfed by nomel on Thursday December 29, 2022 @12:23PM (#34175070)
That happen to exactly match Meta’s arbitrary list of artsy words. Clearly, they copied the names.
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