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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Is Pixelfed an appropriate place to upload an image to share on Lemmy / Mastodon?

[–] umbraroze@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Well that's the neat part, you don't! If you post on Pixelfed you're already on Mastodon.

...I suppose you can reshare it if you want. Me, I just point people to my Pixelfed account on my Mastodon profile and vice versa.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 1 points 15 hours ago

I wonder if they were thinking like how before Reddit had image galleries, people would use imgur

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It’s doable, but you might as well just upload it here. But for smaller albums, it would be a good idea.

[–] Shatur@lemmy.ml 3 points 23 hours ago

I wish we could have multiple photos in posts here. Yes, we can put other photos in the description, but it would be nice to view all of them without opening the post.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago (4 children)

What's the intended use case for Pixelfed?

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Instagram replacement rather than Imgur

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

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 2 points 1 day 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 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 10 points 1 day 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 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 1 points 16 hours ago

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

[–] Microw@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago

Whatever the usecase for Instagram is

[–] MxRemy@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago

I've been doing that exact thing, but only as long as the images would be Instagram-worthy in the first place. Not just temporary junk. I figure it's probably more optimized for picture storage, since that's the whole point right? Plus then I get it two places instead of one!

If you use the raw media link itself instead of the link to the post, it displays on Lemmy exactly the same as if you'd uploaded it here in the first place. So that's nice.