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 10 points 4 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 3 hours ago

!lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world ?

[–] MysticKetchup@lemmy.world 18 points 7 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 4 points 6 hours ago

Different vibes. I am really liking the pixelfed UI.

[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Pixelfed allows video?

[–] witten@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Yes. No transcoding, but that's actually a feature as far as I'm concerned.

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 16 points 8 hours ago (1 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.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 7 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 6 points 4 hours ago (1 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

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 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 5 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 2 points 3 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 4 hours ago

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

[–] utopiah@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

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

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