Android APK shipping this weekend
Source first. I ain’t touching an APK without seeing code.
Nothing related to Loops on the Pixelfed GitHub yet.
Hot take: let this brain rot format die already. If you cannot hold your attention for longer than a few minutes at a time, you might want to work on that instead of embracing it.
Do you not think some people doomscroll lemmy, only reading titles and looking at image posts?
Maybe but it’s not the point of it. An infinite scrollable shorts/tiktok like is meant to be doomscrolled
I watch YouTube shorts sometimes, the algorithm gives me mostly comedy, usually some type of shketch where one person plays all the characters. I’ve also seen quick tip or educational videos, outdoor clips. None of what I engage with is doomscroling.
1 - Even when educational you can’t retain all the infos that these short videos give you
2 - Log out of YouTube, and watch the default YouTube shorts feed, you would be amazed how this is a concentrate of shitty posts.
1 - I’m not going to YouTube shorts to be educated, but if Hank Green shows up and drops a fact on me that’ll entertain me for 30 seconds, I’m good. It’s not doomscrooling which was your original point.
2 - Well yeah that’s a bad idea on most content websites, just because the lowest common denominator content is bad doesn’t mean it’s bad once you curate what you want to watch.
2 - but that’s the problem! All the new accounts, which are very often children just growing up, get bombarded with the most evil and actively damaging shit, and they don’t have the ability to curate whatever comes to them, they don’t even know that they need to do that. And if you aren’t spending hours upon hours on the platform, you don’t have time to curate the algorithm anyway, so you will be served poison
That’s a room temp take at best
Seems to have been hot enough to get under your skin, though. Thanks for proving my point. 👍
No, pretty much everyone agrees with you. It’s like posting on unpopular opinions: “I think Hitler was a bad person”
I still feel like they seem to be building a bit too much hype to what’s going to be just another type of social media in the fediverse with scarce posts made by almost exclusively tech enthusiasts
Maybe they are trying to get enough hype so it doesn’t end up being completely that way.
Got mine yesterday when we were out. Told my kid that it would be a non-corporate alternative to TikTok. She couldn’t have been less interested. Sigh.
Anyone know what loops are?
I think it’s like tiktok.
but federated and open source
I believe one of their terms tho is something sketch about your content and data.
Terms of service/privacy policies would be on a per-instance basis.
U would assume so but u never know.
“All your content and data are belong to us”?
The comments are always everyone just shitting on this bullshit lmao
What content would people like to see on this platform? I would think the fediverse audience would be a bit different from your average tiktok or instagram reels user
Reposts from TikTok insta and youtube
