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I have photos/short videos of painted miniatures which I want to show to interested hobby communities. I have started a pixelfed.social account as I have heard this is Fediverse's equivalent of Instagram. Whether it is or not is irrelevant - I quite like the interface, so I decided to keep my content there.

Now pixelfed.social is a generic instance, there are miniatures-interested people but apparently not too many, so I don't really have much traffic on my profile. Not to worry, I found relevant communities: A specific warhammer Pixelfed instance, a tabletop gaming instance of Mastodon and two or three Lemmy communities scattered across the instances. There is also noticeable activity under warhammer-adjacent hashtags on the largest mastodon instances.

I would like to show my work to all those people. How do I do it most efficiently and most "fediverse-ly"? On Reddit I could post to a miniature painting subreddit and then cross-post to other subreddits. On facebook I'd start a fanpage for my painting and share this way across groups or set up a public folder on my profile and link to it. What's the fedi equivalent?

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[–] Tetsuo666@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

To some extent I think you can do most of that on Lemmy.

You can upload images for your posts (not sure for short videos) and cross-post them to other communities.

Edit: I don't know kbin.social but I suspect it would be more adequate to what you want to do.

[–] ShittyKopper@lemmy.w.on-t.work 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

You can @ Lemmy communities on PixelFed / Masto (Like @nostupidquestions@lemmy.world, not via the ! link thing. It's confusing I know) and it should create posts there (not sure how well images federate, also there is a whole deal with Authorized Fetch which my or may not be solved in Lemmy 0.18.x)

Which instance you signed up only affects your "Local" feed (no idea if PixelFed has one, haven't checked) (and of course, the rules you abide by and the admins that will handle the moderation). If you're posting primarily about your miniatures it may make sense to move to a specialized instance rather than a generic one like .social (your followers don't have to move!)

PixelFed and Masto federate really well so all you have to do is follow and get followed by people on the tabletop focused instances (which you already may be without realizing) for your things to end up in those communities. Hashtags don't get federated until at least one person from an instance follows you, but once you get followed your posts will end up in hashtag searches on those instances.

There is also https://a.gup.pe though I have no clue how it intersects with Lemmy.

[–] jantin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks! I just tried testing the @-ing a Lemmy community, Pixelfed treated it as if I tried to find an user and said "no match found". I tried pasting a link to a pixelfed post in the "link" field in Lemmy post creation. It recognised the post/user but the shared media on Lemmy is ant-sized and requires more clicks (or a click on the link to get to pixelfed website).

I have chosen a mainstream instance as I believe it's less likely to be shut down due to e.g. its admin not being able or willing to pay for the server - so for stability. Do you think it's a wrong way of thinking? I'm new in Fediverse, and I'm aware that more small instances is better than a few big ones. But when I want to share something widely having an account on a big one seems reasonable?

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