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Signups opened this week for Loops, a short-form looping video app from the creator of Instagram alternative Pixelfed, reports TechCrunch.
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Can’t see this doing well, who’s gonna want to host it and pay the bandwidth and storage costs?
I know people would be willing to do that for a YT alternative, but I don’t think there’s many people who want to shell out so some kid can post their cringe dance video.
Also, who tf gonna use it? I’d imagine Tik Tok users are the social media group that cares the least about the fediverse, open source, and privacy…
Also, who tf gonna use it? I’d imagine Tik Tok users are the social media group that cares the least about the fediverse, open source, and privacy…
Perhaps it’s one way to change that
so far it seems like an over-marketed unfinished piece of vaporware. there was nothing to look at when it was first dripped months ago. or when the magical countdown stopped. or when no one received beta invites despite it being ‘this week’
just seems like a lot of spamming the fed community now. happy to be proven wrong
Yea this was the last email I got…a promise for another email…5 days ago
Yeah it would have been enticing to see, you know, an actual video or the interface or at least something other than a logo.
Have you ever seen a TikTok video? Why on Earth do we want that on the Fediverse? Not everything that exists deserves to be copied.
There are good short form videos. There are also bad ones. No different than long form video.
Sure, but why? PeerTube already exists and it isn’t like there are length limits.
There is no federation on peertube though, is there ?
Yes, there is. You can even follow PeerTube channels from Lemmy.
wow that’s great. Last I checked there was no such thing
Because some people prefer the format.
Wiser words have never been spoken.
Yea my first reaponse is thats something ill never want. Glad theres no ios client
You’re glad other people can’t access it because you don’t like it?
I could care less. Tiktok is horrid and useless. People can do as they please
You wrote -
Glad there’s no IOS client
That doesn’t sound like letting other people do what they want.
People who care about decentralisation, privacy and data sovereignty etc are usually smart enough to understand that endless feeds of short form video is the new asbestos. You’d have better luck selling big macs to vegans.
Theres vegan big macs - Theres no vegan tiktok :'(
I meant the ones made out of meat 😛
hear me out. The toxicity of social mefia comes from algorithms and advertising. Lots of short videos by the community can be fun/interesting and not addictive/ brain rotting.
endless feeds of short form video is the new asbestos
that’s like saying Mastodon is bad because Twitter ruined society, I mean how often do you find yourself raging endlessly at Mastodon.
I would love to have a chill way of scrolling these videos without having to live with one of the evils.
That being said i am also sceptical if this is it, I mean why do they want my email?
Excellent points 👍
Yep. Agreed - except it is yet another avenue for monetization should it take hold. People keep acting like the fediverse is some kind of incorruptible platform.
Everybody’s heads are up their asses about this. It’s a great idea for a fediverse thing.
The real issue is nobody can use it because the damn confirmation emails don’t get sent.
I never used tiktok but i was a fan of vine. It would be fun to host an instance
Tiktok is the type of social that is meant to redirect people elsewhere, I don’t know, I think that this could work with the Fedi. Tiktok doesn’t really pay it’s creator well AFAIK.
Sick, that’ll get rid of like 60% of my reason to use YouTube (bc I use YouTube shorts, aka Google giggles). Edit: signed up, waiting on my email
Them editing content too? Wonder how far they’d go with that lol
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