Just to add, Digikam for organizing, DarkTable for processing, GIMP for anything DarkTable doesn’t do.

The biggest downsides, for me, with the FOSS route compared to Linux, is that the UIs can be a bit clunky, unclear, or just slower. Since this is a hobby for me, I’m trying to look past those in favor of saving some $$, but it’s not easy after over a decade of Adobe.

Love it! We’ve been getting a lot of foggy nights around here, and this could be really fun to play with. Thanks for sharing!

On the one hand, great, I don’t want Meta anywhere near something I like. On the other hand, my friends are going to be on Threads, not Mastodon, so it’d be nice to follow them without having to go there.

A lot of the people I follow are trying out Threads, but because of no federation yet, you need to use their app to see what they post there. It’s a bit clumsy and I don’t think that they launched without fed on accident.

I wonder if we’ll also see people posting on both Threads and Mastodon, which will mean having to follow two accounts for one person if I want to see both. Just seems odd to use both rather than migrate.

Trying to think positive about this, but just not seeing many upsides so far.

That’s interesting. I always hated the algorithm on Twitter and just wanted to see and interact with stuff from people I followed. I can get that with Mastodon, but also see other posts from the community when I want to.

At first I wanted a one-service social solution (think Twitter and Reddit and Insta wrapped up), but, for the reasons you listed, the fed is great because it’s not trying to be a one-service solution.