I guess it is an "improvement" that we can replace corporate brain rot with community brain rot, but this isn't going to change my mind about short form video.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I do not understand the desire to have alternatives to the world‘s dumbest format. We had good video platforms that worked. Users had agency. Short form video stripped everything away that made the internet a great place once. It‘s poison for society. It needs no alternatives. It just needs to implode.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Funny enough I tried a few videos without signing up, and it doesn't seem as bad? It's a HUGE improvement, in fact.

Tiktok was putting me off because main content in its peak was "teenagers dancing."

Meanwhile the "average age in lemmy is 20 years older than reddit" rule applies to loops. I doubt they will ever have "npc streams."

Still dislike short-form content tho so I will pass, but pretty good community nonetheless.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 20 hours ago

Tiktok was putting me off because main content in its peak was “teenagers dancing.”

I mean it depends on what you want to get from social media. I would argue that things got worse afterwards when it stopped being teenagers dancing and started being right-wing influencers spewing their propaganda. Ultimately, social media should be made by the people contributing to it and how it develops depends on what the users want, not on what you want.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 day ago

Can confirm. There are lots of "boring" videos on Loops. Like, check this out. Yes, it's an entire channel dedicated to chickens. I mean, it's nice and relaxing, but nowhere near as addicting and engaging as tiktok or instagram videos. I'll still count that as a win.

Regardless, @billinkc still rocks.

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 day ago

For now it seems to be mostly very "fediverse".

[–] RalfWausE@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago

Well, it is what de create, right? Why not encouraging people creating short form videos that are decisively not brain-rot?

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It should be horizontal, amirite?

[–] termaxima@slrpnk.net 1 points 12 hours ago

That makes no difference. The problem is the length and the passive acceptance of what the app serves to you.

[–] sixty@sh.itjust.works 1 points 16 hours ago

KOLANAKI