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 27 points 1 month ago (2 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 month ago

!lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world ?

[–] MysticKetchup@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month 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 month ago

Different vibes. I am really liking the pixelfed UI.

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

Pixelfed allows video?

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

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