But it’s also gotten me thinking: What kind of approach do I really want to take?
I want a unified, self-hosted, #IndieWeb enabled gallery of the photos I’ve shared on social sites, yes, but are my Instagram / Pixelfed / Twitter / Mastodon photos *actually* that different from the ones I share on Flickr? There’s a lot of overlap.
Would it make more sense to just make one big #photogallery with everything?
I guess the big questions are:
1. How differently do I use IG/Pixelfed/Mastodon/birdsite compared to Flickr (aside from volume)?
2. How differently are the sites structured, and how can I best combine those?
3. Do I want to?
On Flickr, each photo has a title, description and metadata, and you can build collections of as many as you want.
On IG etc, several photos might share a description and tags. And I think Pixelfed is the only one that has an album equivalent.
Back in the day I used Instagram as sort of the rough draft for Flickr – I’d take a snap with the phone, and if I had a better camera with me I’d take a photo with that, and then when I got back to a desktop I’d take whichever came out better, adjust it as needed, and post that one to Flickr.
Then phone cameras got better.
I still put a lot more on Flickr than other sites, but I suspect if I went back through my whole Pixelfed archive and my IG archive from the point when they allowed non-square aspect ratios to the point when I stopped using it, most of the shots on there are going to also be on Flickr.