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what's the best alternative for insta? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by frankenswine@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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due to the guitarist opening an insta account for our band i now have to maintain thataccount on this absolute hellscape of a platform.

being a long time fedinaut i will ditch it asap. we have both videos and photos to promote a band. i guess pixelfed is kind of a replacement for that? or is masto the real deal? which instances are good for alt music/bands?

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[–] sznowicki@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Tbh I'd try mastodon. Pixelfed is cool and all but there's not much traffic there.

[–] baronvonj@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

All Pixelfed content is discoverable and followable up on Mastodon and has the benefit of allowing more attachments per post than Mastodon. So I would think for OPs use case of pushing media-focused content, without really needing the account to consume other peoples' content, Pixelfed is a decent choice.

[–] frankenswine@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

can i post videos to pixelfed, though?

and do i need a separate account if i chose to post for example text-only?

[–] baronvonj@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Video yes. Text-only no, you would need an account on another platform for that.

https://mastodon.social/@pixelfed/106617110297151132

https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/issues/3153

You could post a picture of text (with ALT text) from Pixelfed, though.

[–] jlow@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

+1 for Masto over Pixelfed, I have accounts on both and Pixelfed is basically a (very janky) "Mastodon but only image posts but also a whole lot of bugs and terrible UI". The comment feature on Pixelfed is godawful (one of the worst I've ever seen), things like following or muting hashtags sometimes just error out etc. Never had anything similar on Mastodon ever.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 8 months ago

Pixelfed is the fedi equivalent, maybe make an account there and mastodon.

[–] tiny_hedgehog@piefed.social 7 points 8 months ago

Life.

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

If the guitarist opened the account why is it you that has to manage it? Can't they do it themself?

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

Im in the same boat. I loathe meta products but only stay on because of band. There really isn't anything else.

[–] cerafredo@reddthat.com 0 points 8 months ago

Taking photographs the old way and putting them in neat albums and sharing them only with your family and close friends, not the entire world :)