There is also a paid subscription which hovers around £5 per month with their different payment options. You can have a free account where you can upload up to 1000 photos and you see ads.

Those two things caused Flickr to fall behind in the preferred photo app by many photographers. And, in the past, they changed their policy so that in order to have a Flickr account, you needed a Yahoo email address, but this is no longer the case. But it took a knock when Instagram became popular. But, is this a good or bad thing? – you tell me?įlickr was founded in 2004 and is a massive photo sharing website and app. This means that it does not learn what you like. Where Instagram and Facebook filter out the poor pictures via their algorithms, Vero does not because it doesn’t mine your data.

This means you may have you search for some time before finding good content. Say what you want about Instagram, but it used to do pretty well with suggesting content to you that it thought you might like – In most cases, cream did float to the top! In Vero you have to search for a # you are interested in, and it will display the content attached to that # chronologically. You can # your images in a very similar way to Instagram to get discovered.ĭesktop app is a little hard to use, not as intuitive as you would like, but maybe that’s because I’m trying to use it like Instagram and Facebook. With a desktop app you can remove apps from your phone and actually get your life back! That is a big bonus for me. You see only the content you want - just the content from people you follow. I’ve actually been on Vero for a few weeks now and you can follow me here if you wish Remember, we live in a capitalist society and nothing is free! You would expect Vero to charge at some point or have ads. Vero is currently free, but the original business plan was to invite the first million users for free and then start charging a subscription fee – this hasn’t happened yet. It’s not a social media platform that is just for photography – it’s for anything really, like Facebook and Instagram is. It’s a platform that is free of ads and data mining – Vero actually means ‘truth’ in Italian.

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