I just generally want to talk about pixelfed and mastodon.

First of all, Mastodon is designed to be addicting. I am not kidding about this and I check mastodon several times a day. The UI is designed to keep you on the platform. With the favorite notification counter, boosts, etc. I have a really bad feeling in my gut that more similar UI changes are going to be made. This will probably force me to quit mastodon in the future. But luckily there are other fronteds like pinafore that I can take advantage off.

Second is Pixelfed. The above mentioned things are also applicable to Pixelfed. But the annoying thing is that the UI looks way too similar to instagram. I don’t take a lot of photos, so I will just let this one pass.

But imo it is just better to create a gallery on your personal website to showcase all your photos and add an rss feed to the page.

Mastodon and Pixelfed are great platforms. I do enjoy using them but these are some of the problems that I have with them.