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

submitted 2 weeks 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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[–] baronvonj@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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.