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This past week I have heard the same question thrown around over and over again: "what's the point of setting up a account if the software is interoperable with the rest of the Fediverse? Why not just post photos on Mastodon or Sharkey or __?"

Well, allows you to have a beautiful, curated feed of your photos.

See:
1️⃣ my self-hosted Pixelfed feed
2️⃣ the way my feed appears on Pixelfed

as evidence.

Thank you @dansup for giving us an awesome Fedi photo platform 🙏

Dan Bocain

@_elena One word response: Options.

It's nice to have options in life.