In your opinions, what are the best photo-based social media alternatives to Instagram for creators, artists and/or small businesses? I feel like my Insta account is near dead so I need to be looking at other sites too outside of Meta (I'll still be on here!)

February 09, 2026 - 19:34 UTC

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I miss cohost. Tumblr is apparently still very popular for art and artists?
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Vero was trying but I don’t know how it’s doing now. Flickr is still around but more for images than socials
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I haven't tried this but heard good things about posting your own stuff to Pinterest so it's got actual attribution and links lol
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I second Pinterest, it's where most of my website's traffic comes from and they tend to favor shoppable pins.
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Pink sky!! It's on Bluesky's open protocol but all of the layout and features are Instagram-esque. I really like going on there to have a just art feed for a while
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I know some people also really like mastodon but I haven't tried it because of some previous things I had heard about it. I also know Pixelfed exists, but I'm not sure how good or bad it is over there
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Tumblr is still rolling along somehow, I find it quite difficult to keep up with but I’m sure your stuff would do well
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oh that's huge! That must have taken agest to do.
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Thank you! It took just over 160 hours, its an 18-inch hoop :)
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Mr M suggested Pixelfed (which I’d never heard of, so don’t know how successful that would be!)

pixelfed.org/

My creative offspring suggested Reels on Insta, if you’re not already on it.
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