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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

What's the intended use case for Pixelfed?

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 36 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Instagram replacement rather than Imgur

For that there is https://catbox.moe/ and https://imgbb.com/

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 2 points 2 weeks ago

Pixelfed can be used as image hoster likewise, those 2 you mention are proprietary, so if one cared about that, they might prefer Pixelfed

[–] RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It acts as a Instagram replacement (but is actually about photos and not videos)

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

loops.video is aiming for the video segment. Tho' it seems like one app for pix and vids would be nifty.

[–] RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Pixelfed does videos to, and I think federation with loops is planned

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 2 points 2 weeks ago

I hadn't tried vids! Ok, it could get a whole lot weirder, and/or more informative.

[–] Microw@lemm.ee 9 points 2 weeks ago

Whatever the usecase for Instagram is