TikTok basically invented shorts. Maybe Snapchat. And everyone else’s sucks because their AI isn’t as good. It’s a toxic medium anyway. 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.
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