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 26 points 1 week 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 5 points 1 week ago

!lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world ?

[–] LiPoly@lemmynsfw.com 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It’s like saying “people share photos and videos all the time on Twitter. What is the difference with Instagram?”

[–] Damage@feddit.it 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I mean, yeah, what's the difference?

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

So one is for spreading right wing propaganda and one is for shilling knockoff perfumes?

[–] pumpkinseedoil@mander.xyz 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

One split the focus on text and pictures of all kind, one focuses on photos

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 points 6 days ago

As a software guy, that just sounds like one bit of software with two audiences that call it different things.

Everyone seems to be stepping on each others toes anyway, with "reels" and shit trying desperately to claw back some of those kids lost to TikTok.

Honestly not sure why the Fediverse is split that way either. A Lemmy client surely contains about 99% of the code to be a Mastodon client or Loops or Pixelfed or any of the others. Just looks like a procession of people constantly reinventing the wheel and painting it a different colour...

[–] MysticKetchup@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week 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 7 points 1 week ago

Different vibes. I am really liking the pixelfed UI.

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

Pixelfed allows video?

[–] witten@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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