blog.abtmtr.link/mtr/

#statusupdate #imgabtmtrlink #abtmtrlink

Hi! I just got done migrating img.abtmtr.link from Pixelfed to WriteFreely. It wasn't that hard, but I would like to write a blog post about it anyway. It sounds fun.

Why did you do this?

I did this for a few reasons.

• I do not like Instagram. Pixelfed was trying to be as much like Instagram as possible.
• No single-user instance support. Anyone trying to go to the root would be booted straight to a sign-up screen instead of my profile.
• Inconsistent. The Pixelfed UI was “the new one” when signed in, but it would default to “the old one” when you were not, which meant that everyone would have seen the old UI whether they wanted to or not.
• Bad at federation mentions. Pixelfed has to know a user exists first (being mentioned by an out-of-instance user) before I could mention them. With WriteFreely, that is done automatically.
• Customization. Pixelfed does not like custom fonts. I like Lexend Deca. It does not. WriteFreely does not care.

Therefore, I moved img.abtmtr.link over to WriteFreely. It's been working pretty well!

Are there any bad things that have happened because of this?

To my knowledge, there's one:

When you look up “[img/blog].abtmtr.link” on a well-known instance, you get a bunch of garbage from past instance configurations.

...That's all I know.