Not great to hear, but I am glad you are proud of it yourself, focusing on popularity of your own posts I feel never works out, but as long as you can look back on your efforts and be happy and proud, it’s all you really need. I’m not too fused with not gaining attention on the posts alone, as you say, it’ll be a place to point people too when they ask in person as these are the crowds of people I’ll be focusing on.

This is exactly the plan. I go to a lot of meets, underground and public eye, so the plan is just to exchange at these events/meets. Currently there is just knowledge of people based on common of appearance and 1 person I have exchanged numbers with, but I have multiple people asking every meet for a IG or that alike asking to see what I shoot, and this is the sole reason of asking the question. I’d love to satisfy these people, be able to give them a page, a “portfolio” they are familiar with, but also somehow still keep my privacy with the systems I use

Awesome to hear! Would be kinda a nice feeling consistently getting interations on your posts, I’m not focusing on that, but can’t deny that it does sound nice. I hear that a lot that “making it” on any social media really does just became a job in itself, and I really don’t want that. Posting what I plan on would still really just be a passion project of my own and I’d like to keep it that way for as long as possible, the moment it becomes a job, it looses it’s appeal

Yes, the odds though is what gets ya. As mentioned in other comments, gaining attention, followers, or what have you isn’t my intent, just a means for local people I meet face to face to easily find me online, see essentially a “portfolio” and reach out to me in the future if they really wish.

This is really helpful and good knowledge to have, appreciate it! I don’t plan on reels or stories but good to know what to do if I do decide, as for now just a place to post too and to share with people face to face when they ask where they can find me online. I have had many interactions with people eager to follow me online only to then weird them out because i have no FB/IG/Tiktok/Fitter, then never hear or see them again, so it is mainly for that reason.

Pixelfed is nice, but there is very little traction there, but as my aim isn’t to gain global followers or gain any fame, I am not fussed with posting somewhere that would garner that attention, instead a more portfolio like, easily shareable and understood amongst the masses media that could also be a way for someone to reach out if they wished. I plan on posting to both and promote the pixelfed on IG in the future if I go down that route too. Separate hardware for the 1 task of posting and occasional interaction seems to be the way, I am hesitant on a VPN though as long in the past I tried making and running an account while only on a VPN, and within minutes the account got shut down due to “suspicious activity”, which required a pic of me and government ID to unlock the account, and I haven’t touched meta since, with or without VPN.

I wish it was as easy as that, but not much in terms of an alternate when it comes to my location and the community of people I’d be doing shoots with. Very little in terms of publicly accepted social medias outside of IG, FB, Tiktok and Xitter, even reddit although is common, I still wouldn’t call it a household name here outside of major cities