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- technology@lemmy.world
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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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
Dan seems to have trouble sticking with a single project. Sometimes it feels like he announces some new thing every week that never gets finished.
Yeah I still remember his fediverse direct messaging platform. Haven’t heard about it since he announced it.
Maybe he’s just too busy?
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.
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
i like cringe dance videos but i think the problem’s gonna be the volume
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 :'(
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.
Because some people prefer the format.
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
It’s also one of the best ways to advertise as a small content creator. The internet hates self-promotion with a passion, but short form videos? People love that shit.
Because wanting braindead content that you don’t have to think about or form a critical opinion over is a valid request. There’s a big reason the Fediverse doesn’t see widespread adoption: the content sucks, it’s all politics from the farther edges of every end of the spectrum and FOSSbro tech discussion that’s about as insufferable as cryptobro subreddits.
If the Fediverse wants to attract more people, then it needs to start expanding into what those other people actually want. They don’t want to have a furry with a Stalin profile pic explain Linux kernel to them, they want to laugh at inconsequential videos of children falling into things that they can leave a “heart” on and quickly share a link to their friend with.
If the Fediverse wants to attract more people, then it needs to start expanding into what those other people actually want.
I’m okay with more people, but not those people. We are here in the Fediverse for some degree of quality, of which furries explaining the Linux kernel is one example of kind.
I think you’re underestimating who “we” includes when talking about the Fediverse. Normies want a place here, too.
None of you have ever laughed at a TikTok once?
I’ve never been on tiktok so no
Not really. Only shaked my head in disbelief.
Well aren’t you cool and aloof
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.
Wiser words have never been spoken.
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.
I don’t really get why people scroll through short-form video, but at least there’s an opensource alternative in the works… Will be interesting to see if they allow non-loops users to contribute bandwidth because hosting all of those videos will be expensive af.
I like it for language learning. The books gets tedious as hell but some people have excellent short videos to help remember things and hear them pronounced by native speakers.
It’s because it gives a nice dopamine hit. Just like a still-image meme but more so because it’s video.
would it have a app?
It will be mobile only at first
app ≠ program
It is… App = Application = Program, especially for mobile devices.
