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what's the best alternative for insta? (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by 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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[โ€“] 16 points 10 months ago (4 children)

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

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 10 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.

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  • [โ€“] 9 points 10 months ago (2 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.

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  • [โ€“] [S] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    can i post videos to pixelfed, though?

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

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    • [โ€“] 7 points 10 months ago

    Life.

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    [โ€“] 7 points 10 months ago

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

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    [โ€“] 2 points 10 months ago

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

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    [โ€“] 4 points 10 months ago

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

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