I wish someone else would concentrate on the thing I like. I have my own issues with Pixelfed (specifically how much it doesn't want you to use it for NSFW content even though it allows it), but I don't deny that short form videos are hugely popular and a good way to pull people in to the fediverse.
this post was submitted on 16 Mar 2025
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TikTok basically invented shorts. Maybe Snapchat.
That would be Vine
Everybody forgets about Vine :p
Social networks benefit from the network effect. The ides behind federation is to make the network effect work for everyone by making leaving the system an u tenable position. The beautiful part of federation and activpub in particular is that because all content is shared across the same protocol one service improves all the others. Having a short form video service might not be particularly popular but it will then integrate with the rest of the fediverse improving it and cementing the network effect for all services.
This would be more powerful if we could figure out fediversal accounts tho.
As long as they are compatible. Lemmy for instance is not very compatible with mastadon and the like. I was under the impression that activitypub payloads were app specific, and everyone is just kinda coat tailing mastodon.
Lemmy Mbin and Piefed are completely compatible.
The quirks between Mastodon and those 3 comes from the format difference
Agreed, but I also wouldn’t mind if someone tried to work on an algorithm that would be entertaining while also being more beneficial to society. I don’t think it’s impossible to do and maybe people would be more okay with that as a replacement rather than having them quit cold turkey.
Doomscroll Wikipedia
I tried it some time ago. No algorithm behind it so if someone wasn’t already watching random Wikipedia pages this won’t make them do it.
Its simple, let ppl control it, algorthims are good when they dont favor controversy, which is what most platforms push to get ppl to stay on them, but they have sweetspots before the advertiser pleasing phase where they just try to max out dopmaine and you're able to close the app satisified.
Maybe Snapchat
I've always heard of snapchat being the worst of them all, so maybe it depends on what kind of content you follow?
I with the Pixelfed creator would just focus on Pixelfed, I use that and it’s a total win, just needs some kinks worked out and more popularity.
Now that they have some funding and are building up a small team, it might let them focus on a few things at once. I agree though that it won't replace Tiktok. At this point, doomscrolling is a psychological addiction that takes effort to move away from.