The website for Loops.video now has a countdown timer, indicating three days until... something. Either Skynet awakening, or the opening for registration of the new federated TikTok style app.
The website for Loops.video now has a countdown timer, indicating three days until... something. Either Skynet awakening, or the opening for registration of the new federated TikTok style app.
Loops, explore and share short videos on the fediverse. Available soon!
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!
I believe its the public beta announcement.
55I choose Skynet. Can I choose Skynet?
43Do we get a choice? Because I also vote for Skynet.
17I also vote for Skynet and the inevitable nuclear Armageddon.
May the atomic spark be struck, and spears of purifying nuclear flame rain from above.
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If it's between that and another TikTok, yes please do. These choices are as painful as a US presidential election.
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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.
39Do 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.
23Do 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.
10I 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.
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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.
36but even decades later, Twitter style interfaces do not make sense to me
Oh I feel the pain
13I 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.
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28holy shit gabbo
9gabbo. Gabbo. GABBO!
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I've never cared much about TikTok but old Vine memes make me wish I had been more involved with that platform. If Loops ends up being cool, it might be neat to help pioneer something for once.
21release it or dont. i hate this spamvertisement/countdown bullshit
19It's marketing. People do it because it works.
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We dont need more tiktok like sites.
We need to kill the ones that already exist.
They are social cancer.
18isn'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
20People were able to watch funny videos long before tiktok. Tiktok is cancer.
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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).
18What's an AP messenger? (This better not be the setup for a punchline).
1Messenger that uses ActivityPub as protocol.
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I am betting on Skynet.
16God, I hope so.
AI apocalypse sounds much better than anything the current timeline can offer.
14Certainly better than more TikTok...
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I'm predicting stupid skynet. It will want to kill humanity but by making stupid suggestions.
"Hey maybe try drinking poison today?"
No.
"Please?"
No.
"What if I gave you a recipe for poison cookies? You like cookies. Will you please eat poison cookies?"
No.
"Can you build a robot for me if I send you clips from a Terminator movie?"
Which one?
"Terminator Genysys"
NO.
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I'd prefer Skynet if I'm gonna be honest.
14my money is on it being skynet
10FederatedTok seems like it could be a good idea, depending on what kind of algorithm they come up with, or if each server creates their own.
Will be an interesting experiment to say the least.
8I think this one is especially tricky because it seems to be all about The Algorithm (I hate that "the algorithm" has become a thing people say, but you probably know what I mean when I say it). The secret sauce that makes it work is the algo, which is very data driven, and how that works on a federated platform I'm not sure.
I desperately want something like this to succeed though, it's exciting seeing major projects taking off. I've been on Lemmy since the beginning, and it is quite big now. Mastodon had a surge, probably the surge that federation needed. But I think Loops could potentially prove to be the most significant one yet. I can't say this model of content consuming is ideal, necessarily, but I think the important thing is showing that it can be federated.
I don't know who remembers the dog days of friendica and diaspora being our only hopes. Those were dark times, and now things are really taking off.
5Despite your (and my) personal feelings about this type of media consumption, it's the current mainstream thing and could be a driving force into making federated platforms more visible. There's a million FakeTok apps out there, it'll be interesting to see what happens when a decentralized competitor hits the market.
As much as I hate it, I feel like I need to participate to make sure it gains enough traction to matter...
FOR SCIENCE!
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I really hope to see more queer centric content, and less hate generally.
6🤞 please be Skynet, please be Skynet🤞
6It's probably just Chris Jericho again doing Chris Jericho things.
5please be skynet
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4Looks like the timer pushed back. Now it’s at 12 days.
2are they going to sell bulk nitrogen gas?
2Yeah but vertical videos are cancer, so...
0TikTok x Fediverse should be the worst conbination possible. Ben diagram with no space shared
-3Ben diagram
46Never seen that image before. I love that
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Anything that can properly bring videos to the fediverse is good imo. What makes tik tok shit is their community. I figure it would be vastly different for the fediverse because of the difference in age demographic and lack of monetizing.
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Remindme! 4 days
-4Remindme works on lemmy?
1Apparently https://mstdn.social/u/remindme does. 🤞
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Postponed 11 days unfortunately due to Meta shenanigans
1Just ping @remindme@mstdn.social
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Good to know, cheers!
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Remindme! 4 days
-4Loops got postponed unfortunately
2@remindme@mstdn.social 4 days
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