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?

  • Tetsuo666@lemmy.world
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    1 year 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 [they/them]@lemmy.w.on-t.workEnglish
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    1 year ago

    You can @ Lemmy communities and it will create posts there (not sure how well images federate)

    Which instance you signed up only affects your “Local” feed (no idea if PixelFed has one, haven’t checked). 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.

    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.

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