@peterbutler I chose Pixelfed for my travel photos because of the way it displays my photos in the public profile. I can send a link to my profile to anyone who’s interested in seeing my travel photos and it will provide a familiar Instagram-like interface. I also like being able to add locations to my images.
@chriswood Super helpful. I appreciate the very useful insights. I’m not a photographer (at all), so my “blog” (or microblog) would be purely editorial, i.e. “look what I found!” (I see a lot of wild stuff on the streets)
I’m mostly weighing those top 3 options based on ability to share and ease of publishing. There’s honestly not much difference for me at this point, so still not sure ...
@peterbutler for ease of publishing then, I’d suggest go with Mastodon. The mobile apps are more mature than Pixelfed’s official app.
I run a second satire photo blog with my partner, and he couldn’t stomach Pixelfed. It was rather clunky to make new posts, so we started again on Mastodon. Using Ivory on iOS to compose posts is a joy.
@peterbutler I used Flickr for many years. But once Yahoo bought it out and upped the pro price to ~$70 a year, I decided I was done with them. Pixelfed seems the closest approximation to what I liked about Flickr
@peterbutler Going with Pixelfed because of the simplicity and the feature of collections - paired with the Fediverse-approach this simply is everything I need when showing the photo and telling some things about it..
@peterbutler Because I got into the pixelfed.art invites giveaway, photos there are not resized nor compressed and are stored in their original size and quality.
@peterbutler The Flickr/Smugmug folks are supposedly considering adding ActivityPub support, so maybe the Fediverse will come to my already existing photo blog.
@peterbutler since I already have a #WordPress site working on the #Fediverse I'd probably go that route. A close second would be standing up my own #Pixelfed instance, but that would require more maintenance overhead for me I think.
@peterbutler I don’t think of any of those as blog hosting - they are more like community message boards - a blog is longer form and the viewer gets best experience by visiting your homepage/blog stream. Comments are visible and links to other info sources are immediately available. Now if you are looking for a place to simply post a daily upload with searchable tags and maybe a link to a sale site, then any of the above would work, choice depends on your target market/image style.
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