People want to continue to use something close to Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, Twitter but not be locked to their enshitified companies who decide what they get to see.

Many that come over find out there's no algorithm and that they have to follow people to get any content, they find they miss the doom scroll and go straight back.

[–] shortrounddev@lemmy.world 13 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Every one of these federated apps needs a strong meme feed. Just an endless stream of shitposts and funny content. Doesn't need to be doomscrolling, just needs to be a constantly available source of low effort junk food content

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 hours ago

!lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world ?

[–] MysticKetchup@lemmy.world 21 points 14 hours ago

Better UI and a better discover page mainly. Plus it's gotten a lot of organic advertising just from luck and people talking about it, and no obvious competitor like Bluesky

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 6 points 12 hours ago

Different vibes. I am really liking the pixelfed UI.

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[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 17 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

It is simple and free of bloat. I like it much better than that youtube shorts analog I can't remember the name of.

[–] Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago

Runs much faster than java BlueSky, the destroyer of batteries.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah but pixelfed is coming out with loops, it's been on beta for awhile, that is basically Tik Tok with no ads or government/big tech ownership. I personally feel like that could have taken a giant chunk of the Tik Tok users and kept them from having to learn to read ideograms to access content they wanted. I don't personally use that format of social media but I tried it on Android and it looks just like Tik Tok looked that I have seen on others devices.

[–] 03ari@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

The only reason why no company could take over TikTok is their algorithm, its the worst yet the best part of the app, since you only see stuff you like, without having to search for similar accounts. I’ve been feeling lonely on the Fedi compared to other socials

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 hours ago

https://quiblr.com/understanding_your_private_personalized_feed

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 hours ago

Yeah, discoverability is work on Fedi, unfortunately most people would rather consume algo content from a bad source then work to find good people to follow.

Everything is open, I suspect if we REALLY wanted to we could make an indexing service to help surface content based on preferences, but then that's a high value target for corporate America to farm. Also it would be pretty expensive to pay for it :)

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I just can't imagine who will pay for that sort of reach. It's incredibly expensive for self hosting operations like TikTok. I'd imagine it'd be outrageous without a CDN.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 3 points 9 hours ago

I’d imagine it’d be outrageous without a CDN.

The idea is you'd have dozens or hundreds of people hosting loops and they'd each spread the cost among them and get funded by followers and philanthropists. Most lemmy instances use CDN, but it's nowhere near as heavy media-wise.

You could also go the Peertube route and have the client share what you're watching with other people torrent style.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 hours ago

Maybe a CDN funded through a few non-profits, never looked into it

[–] utopiah@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

Neat, is there a way to share from Immich to Pixelfed?

[–] paequ2@lemmy.today 25 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I was curious what the other apps were, found the list: https://fedidb.org/software

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[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 79 points 23 hours ago

Kick ass! I'm all for more Fediverse stuff getting popular, and if this has any competition, just means more features will be added across all of them.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 356 points 1 day ago

When a fediverse app wins, the whole fediverse wins. A rising tide lifts all ships or however it goes.

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