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   David Zaslavsky (diazona@techhub.social)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Aug-2024 17:29:18 JST David Zaslavsky

   • Daniel Supernault
   • brent

   @dansup @stickfog @Irishmasms Oh thanks for chiming in! I did not expect a response 😀

   Honestly, don't take what I said as an indication that you should be doing anything differently. I think the kind of service Pixelfed is trying to be is not the kind of service I want. I'm more interested in a service where I can upload a whole album of photos (whether that's 3 photos or 300+), optionally annotate them with captions and other metadata, and share links to specific photos or to the album, or to my profile which would display everything I've uploaded in a nice, easy-to-browse format. It seems like the Pixelfed experience (presumably like Instagram, and also like Mastodon and other vaguely Twitter-like services) is more about making posts which are meant to be enjoyed for a little while and then more or less forgotten - not that they become unavailable, they just become inconvenient to locate, share, and browse.

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     brent (stickfog@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Aug-2024 16:56:49 JST brent

     @Irishmasms Pixelfed.social works well for me

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     David Zaslavsky (diazona@techhub.social)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Aug-2024 16:56:49 JST David Zaslavsky

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     • brent

     @stickfog @Irishmasms Same. Though to be fair I'm only an occasional user... I was never on Instagram, so I don't care about replacing it, and I have not found #Pixelfed to be a suitable substitute for Facebook photos (or, for what it used to be).

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     David Zaslavsky (diazona@techhub.social)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Aug-2024 17:39:55 JST David Zaslavsky

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     • Daniel Supernault
     • brent

     @dansup @stickfog @Irishmasms That being said, *if* you did want to change Pixelfed to cater to the use case I have in mind, I think the two main changes that would make the difference for me are:

     - Add some way to upload a large group of photos and mark them as thematically related (e.g. all coming from one event) - this could entail raising the limit on number of photos in a post, or adding an entirely separate concept of an "album" or some such thing.
     - Have a way for a viewer to easily see and browse all the photos from a profile, or from a post or "album" or whatever. For comparison, right now if I look at my profile I see a list of posts but there's only one visible photo per post. I would want an interface that surfaces photos, not posts.

     P.S. Either way I haven't given up on Pixelfed, I'll continue to use it; it's just not often that I have a good opportunity.