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   Elena Rossini ⁂ (_elena@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 19:16:08 JST Elena Rossini ⁂

   • dansup

   This past week I have heard the same question thrown around over and over again: "what's the point of setting up a #Pixelfed account if the software is interoperable with the rest of the Fediverse? Why not just post photos on Mastodon or Sharkey or __?"

   Well, #Pixelfed allows you to have a beautiful, curated feed of your photos.

   See:
   1️⃣ my self-hosted Pixelfed feed
   2️⃣ the way my #Mastodon feed appears on Pixelfed

   as evidence.

   Thank you @dansup for giving us an awesome Fedi photo platform 🙏

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     Shaun Watters (timeslip1974@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 19:18:58 JST Shaun Watters

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     • dansup

     @_elena @dansup I agree, it also gives you photos the possibilty of being seen by a wider, less tech savvy audience as well. These days all my photos get posted directly onto Pixelfed and just shared here on Mastodon

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     Russell (zimzat@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:27:01 JST Russell

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     @_elena I started using the Phanpy client for Caturday photos on Mastodon as it offers a media view similar to the example. I don't plan on posting a ton of pictures so I think this works for me, but this may not be ideal for others.

     It will be interesting to see if someone can create a client that can handle the best of both or if we should segment accounts by media type. I know I'd dislike lots of videos in my feed because that's a different kind of interaction. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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     Dan Bocain (boomlandjenkins@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:29:23 JST Dan Bocain

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     @_elena One word response: Options.

     It's nice to have options on life.

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     Lookin4space (lookin4space@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:36:49 JST Lookin4space

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     • dansup

     @_elena @dansup I tried getting Pixelfed and it won’t work.

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     Elena Rossini ⁂ (_elena@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 21:51:14 JST Elena Rossini ⁂

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     • Lookin4space

     @lookin4space maybe try a different instance? It’s really great

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     Elena Rossini ⁂ (_elena@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 22:04:36 JST Elena Rossini ⁂

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     • Saskia

     @saskia awww thank you Saskia ☺️ believe it or not some of those on my feed were shot with an iPhone 6!

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     Saskia (saskia@newsmast.social)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 22:04:38 JST Saskia

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     @_elena

     Off topic but your photos are insanely good

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     Richter Rabbit (rr@betweenthelions.link)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 15:04:35 JST Richter Rabbit

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     @_elena

     I wish the media size limit was high as Mastodon (100mb). 🤷🏻♂️

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     Elena Rossini ⁂ (_elena@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 15:04:35 JST Elena Rossini ⁂

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     • Richter Rabbit

     @rr as a filmmaker and photographer used to compressing media for the internet, I strongly believe you don’t need more than 200kb per photo upload and you can get short videos down to 6-10MB. No need for 100Mb uploads, especially thinking of people in remote areas with spotty internet connections

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     Elena Rossini ⁂ (_elena@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 23:05:42 JST Elena Rossini ⁂

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     • Ben F.

     @Sammael99 sure thing. FYI there are LOTS of Pixelfed servers other than pixelfed.social. See the list here: https://fedidb.org/software/pixelfed

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     Ben F. (sammael99@imaginair.es)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 23:05:43 JST Ben F.

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     @_elena Thanks Elena, that's a useful comparison. I was considering Pixelfed, I think you've convinced me (although as I understand it, the new account servers are saturated right now...)