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I'm very interested in potentially seeing an art focused pixelfed instance
I wanted to pursue Pixelfed as an artist and post my work there but every instance I found seemed to have a 1GB storage limit which just isn't super viable long term. Maybe if they have a way where individuals can link their own cloud storage service or something? If the instance owners don't want to host all that media? That's the main thing holding me back from investing more energy into that platform for now though. I'd love to be able to get away from Instagram but for artists it's still pretty much required for anybody who wants to find clients (especially now with Twitter what it is).
Edit: some great suggestions in the replies, I'll follow up with instance admins and see what solutions I can find that way. As well as looking into the request on GitHub mentioned by Gabe. Thank you everyone ☺️
Make a request on github or see if there is one already. I could if need be. It's open source and it seems like as a feature, it would be important to do so. I think a good option would be at least allowing the ability to increase storage limits on a user basis as an admin, that way people can donate to help cover that excess cost involved with hosting images.
Yeah, I'll give that a try and see if they can increase storage per user and what I'd need to do to help with the load. I didn't think to make the request on GitHub though, I'll definitely check to see if anybody else made that suggestion/request and put it in if not.