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Andy Burke

@pixelfed I'm newish to the fediverse and now have accounts on both mastodon and pixelfed. I'm slightly confused about where best to post photos going forwards. Would it make sense to post photos on pixelfed and boost from my mastodon account? Rather than posting on both accounts?

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EdenDestroyer (He/Him)

@andyburke @pixelfed thats what I used to do, post on my pixelfed and boost using mastodon. Getting the best of both worlds

Andy Burke

@edendestroyer @pixelfed thanks for that, I'll try it out. pixelfed certainly seems faster at displaying photos.

EdenDestroyer (He/Him)

@andyburke @pixelfed currently most mastodon servers are experiencing latency due to huge migrations from twitter, everything will get fast with time. Currently the best idea would be making an account on smaller servers

Andy Burke

@edendestroyer I expect to move to a smaller server once I work out where to go!

EdenDestroyer (He/Him)

@andyburke tip: if you desire not to keep your current account in the future, you can simply use the migration feature of mastodon from account settings.

EdenDestroyer (He/Him)

@andyburke @pixelfed but yes, pixelfed is generally much faster at displaying photos, given the design philosophy

Federico Simonetti 🦣

@andyburke @pixelfed it is more about what do you want to do. You can choose to use PixelFed as an app to modify your pictures and have a separated repository for them. Otherwise you can still use your mastodon profile, just you were uploading pictures on twitter 😄

Andy Burke

@sleepingcreep @pixelfed thanks. Pixelfed certainly looks like it handles and curates images better. I think I just need to play a bit.

Mathias Hellquist (Friendica)
@andyburke @pixelfed I would suggest you add your accounts on both services (as in ”follow yourself”) and then I would post photos on Pixelfed (as that is what it is made for) and text-based posts on Mastodon (as that is what it is primarily made for) and then re-toot/re-share from the other account when suitable.

So you would then post a photo on Pixelfed, it comes up in your home stream on Mastodon where you re-share it. That way people also will see your ”other” account and can add it directly if they wish to do so.
@andyburke @pixelfed I would suggest you add your accounts on both services (as in ”follow yourself”) and then I would post photos on Pixelfed (as that is what it is made for) and text-based posts on Mastodon (as that is what it is primarily made for) and then re-toot/re-share from the other account when suitable.
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