I don’t know if you have heard, but Loops.video is a Reels/Tiktok like app from the creator of Pixelfed. I recall it being announced, and checked just now on a whim. All of a sudden, it appears pretty close to ready to launch!
Dansup (the creator of mentioned site) runs several projects including Pixelfed (federated Instagram) but also an AP messenger (which doesn’t seem very useful to me imo).
What’s an AP messenger? (This better not be the setup for a punchline).
Messenger that uses ActivityPub as protocol.
I choose Skynet. Can I choose Skynet?
If it’s between that and another TikTok, yes please do. These choices are as painful as a US presidential election.
Do we get a choice? Because I also vote for Skynet.
I also vote for Skynet and the inevitable nuclear Armageddon.
May the atomic spark be struck, and spears of purifying nuclear flame rain from above.
Yeah but vertical videos are cancer, so…
are they going to sell bulk nitrogen gas?
We dont need more tiktok like sites.
We need to kill the ones that already exist.
They are social cancer.
isn’t it mostly because of their overly addictive recommendation algorithms? taking away infinite scrolling would also help a lot to make it more healthy.
I know people, 40+ in age, who just want to see some fun videos in their work breaks, when nobody’s around to talk with
People were able to watch funny videos long before tiktok. Tiktok is cancer.
Remindme! 4 days
Remindme! 4 days
@remindme@mstdn.social 4 days
@wanderingmagus Ok, I will remind you on Wednesday Oct 9, 2024 at 3:01 PM PDT.
Me also
Unfortunately they postponed it 11 days because Meta, of course, also announced an unrelated program named “Loops”, and now the FOSS project manager doesn’t want to release something that would seem like an afterthought in comparison. 11 days is apparently enough time to do last-minute ultra-polishing to get it ready to tell Threads to go f itself. We’ll see what happens.
It’s a shame, I hope it will succeed. Do you think Meta’s move is related and intentional?
Very possible. It’s not like Loops was a secret, and it would be a direct competitor to Instagram Reels. Plus, E/E/E and all that.
@wanderingmagus Here is your reminder!
Thanks!
Loops got postponed unfortunately
Remindme works on lemmy?
Apparently https://mstdn.social/u/remindme does. 🤞
Just ping @remindme@mstdn.social
Looks like you needed to actually @ the bot, but here’s your late reminder. Unfortunately Loops got postponed about a week due to Meta being a-holes and naming a different thing Loops, but they should hopefully be up next Sunday.
thanks
Good to know, cheers!
Postponed 11 days unfortunately due to Meta shenanigans
Looks like the timer pushed back. Now it’s at 12 days.
It’s probably just Chris Jericho again doing Chris Jericho things.
I’ll be passing on that.
I don’t enjoy my content being the same format as advertising.
Glad to hear of any federated internet updates though.
Do you feel the same way about Mastadon? Twitter was the “look at me” social media. I feel like you just shout things into the void and people give you points for agreeing with you. Its impossible to carry on a real conversation on Twitter (a proper threaded message board like Lemmy excels at this). It seems tied in with the cult of personality whereas we need to shift to a culture of ideas.
I’m probably just a stupid millennial who doesn’t get it, but Lemmy seems like the only really good fediverse structure.
Do you feel the same way about Mastadon?
Yes.
I’m not sure that’s my reason, but I’ve never understood Twitter/Mastodon. It’s just shouting into a void.
Fully agree, I have masto/pixelfed client on my phone but Lemmy is the the one I used most by a long shot.
Idk why it is but on other platforms I feel like I’m intruding on someone else’s conversation, but I can freely reply here no problem (to some extent).
Right. And if you say something constructive, we can respond, and if you don’t, the conversation branch dies.
Twitter/Mastadon do feel weird in that way, but I am thankful for Mastadon’s success even if it’s not really for me.
I feel like you just shout things into the void and people give you points for agreeing with you.
Lol at first I thought this was a direct criticism of the person you were replying to.
release it or dont. i hate this spamvertisement/countdown bullshit
It’s marketing. People do it because it works.
I’d prefer Skynet if I’m gonna be honest.
Good luck to the creator. Pixelfed works well for me, despite being a bit empty, both on my instance and globally. The bones are there though and I personally prefer the way it works over Mastadon’s Twitterish format. I wish I could use Mastadon more because that’s where the mist fediverse users seem to be, but even decades later, Twitter style interfaces do not make sense to me. I’m a smart, nerdy, millennial, who grew up with computers. I can make sense of the IRS’s 1040 form without using turbo tax, but for some reason I can’t make sense of this horrible illogical interface that millions of people love.
In regards to the tiktok tok style app, I think it’ll have a good chance of success simply because it is TikTok’s less assholey cousin and even though many people will trade privacy for functionality, tiktok is about due to become a lame, cringe app for old folks.
I haven’t used Pixelfed, but does it fail to work with with microblogging fedi platform content so bad that you feel you’d have to use Mastodon? Outside of the group/community/threadiverse federation issues in Masto and Lemmy not letting you follow accounts, I my understanding was everything worked pretty well talking to eachoter.
but even decades later, Twitter style interfaces do not make sense to me
Oh I feel the pain
my money is on it being skynet
I really hope to see more queer centric content, and less hate generally.
🤞 please be Skynet, please be Skynet🤞
