For now it’s focusing on being an equivalent. Although the option to repost peoples posts to the feed and not have them show up in your post section is extremely nice. Helps a lot with discovery without making your account a mess like mastodon does. Also soon it will have groups that will be compatible with Lemmy.
He’s mentioned turning them off will be possible really soon.
Oh curious. I don't understand the use-case or how it fits in with the concept of PixelFed so I think I won't use it. I'd like to see PixelFed get more popular, but if most of the posts are disappearing after 24 hours then it's kind of like nobody is even using it. 🤨