due to the guitarist opening an insta account for our band i now have to maintain thataccount on this absolute hellscape of a platform.
being a long time fedinaut i will ditch it asap. we have both videos and photos to promote a band. i guess pixelfed is kind of a replacement for that? or is masto the real deal? which instances are good for alt music/bands?
Tbh I’d try mastodon. Pixelfed is cool and all but there’s not much traffic there.
All Pixelfed content is discoverable and followable up on Mastodon and has the benefit of allowing more attachments per post than Mastodon. So I would think for OPs use case of pushing media-focused content, without really needing the account to consume other peoples’ content, Pixelfed is a decent choice.
can i post videos to pixelfed, though?
and do i need a separate account if i chose to post for example text-only?
Video yes. Text-only no, you would need an account on another platform for that.
https://mastodon.social/@pixelfed/106617110297151132
https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/issues/3153
You could post a picture of text (with ALT text) from Pixelfed, though.