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 12 points 1 week ago (3 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

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[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

... which is absolutely understandable considering how lemmy is most of the time,

it's politics non-stop, one bad news after another, everyone is quick to bash somebody as either a nazi or a tankie or something else.

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[–] archchan@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm just worried a lack of content discovery, (foss) algorithms, other features and consistent development will have an adverse effect on this new growth. I'm glad that Dan finally got the apps on the stores at a critical moment though or we wouldn't even be here.

[–] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

This is the issue. These apps don't use algorithms that made the apps they are meant to replace popular in the first place. People may come, but I fear they won't stay when it's not an exact clone of what they know.

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

At the very least though, at least the algorithms are open source so we know exactly how hot, rising, and scaled are sorted in Lemmy at least and so people who want those algorithms can choose if they wish and those who don’t want them don’t have to have them.

We should train people to mindfully find content. Content discovery algorithms just encourage shitposting. Just put the top posts by favorites or boosts or whatever they are called on Pixelfed in a special trending feed and then just sort your follows by chronological and local by chronological. But as long as their is options, I won’t complain.

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[–] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Oh you mean people don't like being shouted and cursed at for having a moderate opinion.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

you're comparing apples to oranges. Lemmy is for discussions pixelfed is for posting photos.

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[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Everything helps.

No corporations in social media. No venture capital in social media.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 10 points 1 week ago

It ain't a competition!!!

Plus I see that pixelped crowd can join the shit posters if they so chose?

Win win for fedi

[–] tfowinder@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago

Looks really cool, just discovered something liket his existed.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago

I don't know if Lemmy is for everyone, but I'm very happy to see the fedicerse gaining more traction.

Every user that onboards to pixelfed is going to now understand how to set up mastodon.

Blue sky is basically trying the exact same thing and expecting a different result.

[–] idefix@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Misskey seems really popular looking at numbers. I'm confused because nobody talks about it. Is it because of some niche super active audience?

[–] breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 week ago

It's big in Japan. Most of the servers are Japanese.

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[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (7 children)

One question, does LBRY (The protocol powering Odysee) count as something Federated ?

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[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

My account got deleted for inactivity like forever ago. I don't post pics and there wasn't much there at the time, I wish they'd have left it but I understand.

Anyway, what's a good instance to make a new account? Mostly gonna lurk, don't post pics much (or really at all), as I said.

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