this post was submitted on 17 Jan 2024
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Why is there #Mastodon and #Pixelfed?

On pixelfed there's only images but you can filter mastodon for images. Why would I make two profiles and when do I post which image to which platform?

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[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Why is there microblogging when you could just use regular blogging software to write shorter posts?

[–] beta_tester@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Better marketing?

I don't know

[–] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 3 points 10 months ago

It might have a bit to do with people being tired of mainstream social media sites trying to be everything and clone each other. Snapchat was a neat novelty to me initially but they tried to do too much and lost my interest. They may want to focus on doing one things exceptionally well

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

I’m on a Mastodon instance with a 2,000 character limit for a reason: microblogging is only good for shitposting.