This app could potentially supplant Tik Tok overtime. As Tik Tok’s censorship following it’s acquisition by US investors such as Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi-based MGX, and UpScrolled already having questionable ethics, this may be the path forward.
For 12 throw that might be kinda hard. Newish account to promote loops
Newish account to promote loops
Probably, but it seems to be an open-source fediverse community project with no VC backing, so I don’t begrudge them it. Like, how else do you get fediverse projects seen if not in a fediverse discussion community, you want them to just buy Google ads instead?
Well this app looks like total shit.
Also Microsoft is gonna come for them because they already have a Loops
What is Tik Tok overtime?
That’s… maybe not the greatest screenshot to use if you want to support them. The nearly invisible, black-on-dark-blue heading kinda makes it look vibe coded
Might just look that way because it’s using the default theme of Tailwind CSS, which is coincidentally the weapon of choice for sloptimized vibe code.
I guess we should get rid of sweet foods as well, as people can get addicted to that and it can lead to obesity.
Treat them like nicotine?
I wonder if it will function more like Vine?
Maybe it’s because I’m a decade older now, but Vine seemed awesome and I would jump on it for 10-20 minutes a day and have no problem putting it down, even forgetting to check it a week at a time.
I haven’t touched tik tok because it seems like it is much more toxic and addictive in comparison.
Is there porn yet? I’ve found the prevalence of pornography to be a good indicator of how free the speech is on any platform. If you can’t see a titty, it’s probably pretty canned.
absolute fucking gooner logic
Its the goon canary in the goon shaft
Not sure if users can host their own servers yet, but once that becomes available then I don’t see what would stop you.
“Get in loser we are going to open-source a turd”
That’s cool, still not gonna consume short form media. Idk why people with the desire to have healthy online habits would appreciate this new product. It’ll be slopped with politics and AI in no time like Lemmy is already suffering from.
I can’t stand shorts, tick-tock, or any of those videos. The videos I watch are usually comprehensive, longer than 10 mins, and I pause, rewind, slow down ect the video.
Short form is cool because it’s like constrained writing.
Tiktok was pretty great while it was just silly videos.\ But it’s not short form anymore so it’s full of political essays and propaganda.
I kinda hope that loops is more like vine than tiktok or vertical YouTube. But it’ll probably be up to the instance to govern video length.
People don’t want an addicting, toxic, alienating, depressing, billionaire-owned platform.
They want a addicting, toxic, alienating, depressing, non-billionaire-owned platform … Apparently.
A platform that’s not cleansed of anti-genocide anti-ice content is still a step
We don’t want a monarchy. We want a spectacle fueled capitalistic society.
Is there some trend in humanity, where it’s like… we don’t care if we suffer so long as it’s not to the benefit of someone else? We gotta build our own suffering machines of culture instead? What’s up with that?
Is it so wrong to want to watch a funny video from time to time on the bus? IMO the best thing about loops, piefed or whatever is that there’s so little on here that you can open your app of choice for about 30 minutes to an hour and then be done for the week.
I would argue, based on my perception of people who use and abuse those platforms, as well as data to suggest and confirm the above descriptors, that yes it is so wrong lol
I mean, you’re free to eat mcdonalds all you want, but let’s not pretend it’s a healthy choice in any way you measure it
Is it so wrong to just take a little hit of heroin from time to time?
Short form content is actively making people dumber, causing speech impediments in kids by cause their parents and themselves are addicted to the dopamine hit of scrolling.
Are you going to ban alcohol as well because that’s a neurotoxin?
Maybe you put down the pop science magazine for five seconds and understand that a single study, or even five studies, does not a consensus make. You sound like moms against video games or whatever the hell like it was called it back in the 2000s.
Also, great job completely ignoring the point about non-incorporated vectors for engaging with short form videos don’t have enough content for you to continuously scroll.
Not sure about OP, but I think that yes, end goal should be banning alcohol consumption completely.
Yeah, the fact that it’s so normalized in society makes me sick.
What is “questionable” about UpScrolled’s ethics is that it is pro-Palestine. So basically the same reason that TikTok came under attack: it wasn’t promoting Zionist voices and it wasn’t suppressing anti-Zionist voices.
My issue with them is that they’re corporate (and also that I have no interest in blipvert social media).
Clone the brain rot, that’ll save you…
I mean, at least you will have the brainrot without profiling, censorship and potentially clients that make it easier to get off the brainrot
No. No more Vines or Shorts or TikTok and shit. It’s a fucking problem. Stop it.
Oh get over yourself
I hate TikTok too, but it’s not going away without comprehensive legislation regulating social media. Until then, a fediverse alternative that’s not ruled by corporate algorithms would at least be a form of harm reduction. Think of it like a Safe Injection Site program; it’s not great that they’re still using, but at least they’re getting clean needles.
I’ll tell you what, that’s a fair point.
Yes, exactly. It’s just a way to successfully manipulate people to believe how you want them to.
And we don’t want leftists doing that, so let’s make it a moral failing.
Exactly. Ethically sourced brainrot is still brainrot
What is the point of recreating media format designed exclusively to grab attention as much as possible and monetize it?
Short text can be as afdictive as short videos yrt one seems ok and the other not
“What’s the point of creating something people want to use?”
This is why most of you aren’t designers or creators.
People also want to use drugs that cause addiction. Is that a good reason to design and create more of them?
You could also implement features that reduce the addictivity as the EU might be demanding of Tik Tok in the future. When it’s a federated open source platform with no profit motive that’s going to be something much more easy to get in.
Who are you to say it isn’t?
Someone with a vested interest in s healthy, functional society of educated adults.
If you were an educated adult, you’d know that banning drugs tends to cause more harm. You’d also know that some drugs have positive effects on learning, cognition, attention, memory, mood, emotional regulation, and empathy, when used appropriately and responsibly. All of which contributes to a society of healthy and educated adults.
I was talking about specifically about drugs that cause addiction, not all kinds of drugs in general. Also, I said nothing about banning drugs or anything else. I just don’t understand why to produce more of that shit when we as society can’t deal with what’s already out there.
I’d say it’s to help replace unhealthy addictions with a platform that’s smaller and less easy to fall into infinite scroll rabbit holes. Like nic-patches to stop smoking.
and monetize it
Have you used TikTok? If you had in the beginning, it was full of people doing history videos, diy, etc. I suspect it will be something like that. I don’t use it anymore, but it was great in the beginning,.I suspect that if you’re on Loops, especially at first, monetizing it isn’t your first thing. The meme communities are probably going to go nuts.
It still is that way, it just depends on what kind of content you engage with. People on reddit/lemmy LOVE to hate on short form video content but it isn’t inherently destructive or evil IMO., it just depends on how you interact with it.
If this is another tool using ActivityPub, I’m gonna get mad.
…? Interesting thing to share on Lemmy…
Yeah I know. I just don’t like ActivityPub from a technical point of view. But that’s the same with VHS vs Betamax. You just have to go with the popular choice, even though it is worse than others.
Seems already pretty solid. Was testing a bit in the last days:
https://loops.video/@ordos
Still very few users. But this could change as soon as the app is available in the app stores.Since it’s federated, is there a better way to share or a way to shrink for browser people?
Testing linking @ordos@loops.video
I see your local profile here on fedia with no contact. When I try to click though I get a https warning. I don’t have the app though…
FYI, it works great for me on sh.itjust.works. Is your instance a lemmy instance?
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