Hi all,

I want to start a photo community.

I’m trying to figure out the best place…

Mastadon?

Lemmy?

This will be a lot of (hopefully) high quality images. What is the best place for this?

What about pixelfed?

I’m a bit stumped!

      • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
        7·
        4 days ago

        BT dubs, to link communities you prepend with an !. Use the @ sign to link a user.

        Sorry, and thank you. Is that 2nd link okay, now?

        • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
          7·
          4 days ago

          Yes indeed, it’s working now.

          Don’t worry, you should see the number of times I link directly from Alexandrite and it mangles the URL completely by doubling up the lemmy.world part of it…

            • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
              3·
              4 days ago

              It’s one of the available Lemmy user interface modes/modules/plugins/whatever-they-are. You can access it via lemmy.world with:

              https://a.lemmy.world/

              There are things I like about it better than the default desktop Lemmy UI, and a couple of things I don’t like so much. However, I find that it barfs consistently less on uploading images inline in posts. Conversely, when viewing posts it is incapable of displaying embedded videos whereas the default UI (and probably the Tesseract UI) can.

                • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
                  2·
                  3 days ago

                  FYI, it’s not an app you install. It’s just an alternate website to access Lemmy content.

                  This is probably irrelevant if you’re using Piefeed, though, which it appears that you are. (Lemmy and Piefeed can talk to each other in a broad, but not 100% feature complete, manner.)

    • jtzl@lemmy.zip
      8·
      3 days ago

      Hard agree. One of the drawbacks of fediverse sites is that as a result of endless community creation, there’s a dearth of community.

      • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        IME, getting a community off the ground and running is a huge task, especially the more niche it is. With most places you’ll need to be both the show-runner and content creator for years, plus deal with whatever headaches that come up along the way.

        2.5yrs in, with ~1,200 users lost when Lemm.ee shut down, I’m back up to 1K subscribers at my place. I’ve created around 600posts so far, much of them in the form of little articles and sample sequences from graphic novels. So when will the community ‘take off,’ such that I can semi-retire from posting? Probably not anytime soon.

        • jtzl@lemmy.zip
          2·
          2 days ago

          I believe that 100℅. I bet you’re knowledgeable about this tho: I am using an app called Voyager. It appears to show me posts from different servers(?). What is a useful mental model for conceptualizing this?

          Also, as a site admin(?), what is a tool that would be useful for you? Similarly, what is a tool that you think would bring more users to the site?

          Thank you in advance. I really like the concept of the Fediverse, but I get the sense its usability is fairly rudimentary.

          • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            Yes, the different servers are called “instances,” and each are founded by different admins for different reasons. All the communities from all eligible instances get mixed in to your ALL stream / feed, but of course there is also your personal feed made up solely of communities you’re subscribed to.

            I only know that Voyager is a tool, but I’ve no experience with it. I access the Fediverse almost exclusively through web browser.

            I’m only a community founder and mod, not an admin. I don’t know much from that POV, but you could always make a new thread in “AskLemmy” or something.

            …its usability is fairly rudimentary.

            I wouldn’t really say rudimentary; but it’s more complicated than Reddit and takes more time to understand and get the most out of. This is the trade-off for users being nothing more than dollar signs over at Reddit.

            • jtzl@lemmy.zip
              2·
              2 days ago

              Thank you for your response.

              And riiiiight – admin vs mod. I get it, I get it. But now I have new questions! Which features on Lemmy are the most useful ones that Reddit doesn’t have?

              • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
                1·
                2 days ago

                Reddit doesn’t have the post scheduler that PieFed has, which integrates with Lemmy. As a community-runner that one’s super-useful to me. Also on the PieFed side, we can add both hashtags and flair to posts, whereas on Reddit there’s only post flair.

                IIRC both Lemmy and PieFed have the ability to sort posts in more useful ways, for example there’s 8 different ways to sort “top” posts, as well as sorting by “scaled” and other criteria. TBF, Reddit’s 3rd-party “RES” extension is just plain awesome, and adds lots of things basic Reddit doesn’t have.

                Anyway, each app and/or software means of looking at the Fediverse will offer a slightly different mix of features and characteristics. I’m not really the most knowledgeable on that stuff, so again, I urge you to take these questions to an AskLemmy thread, or similar. Could just search on them too, or ask an LLM.