I tried loops months ago, never been on tiktok. Is it just all people walking their dogs and random snips of random landscapes?
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TikTok is about stupid and addictive entertaining shorts. Loops doesn't have those, so it might appear as more boring, but I think it's healthier and so this is a plus.
Nah, it feels a lot more artistic and expressive than corporate-incentivized shorts. I'm here for it!
Not a bad thing IMHO. Reminds me of the very old youtube
Just grabbed it via Aurora to check it out, and it looks like there's no anon browsing option and it requires an account. Can't use my Lemmy account, either, gotta be a loops.video instance. It's not overly difficult to make an account but is there any reason not to allow anon browsing?
I’m not sure I see this being very effective. In my opinion, the draw of TikTok isn’t the short video format itself (there’s plenty of mid-length content from 3-10 minutes on there), it’s the algorithm. Every other platform without the addictive and incredibly personalized algorithm loses the draw because that’s the only way the infinitely-scrolling random short form content pipeline works for people.
Loops does hâve an algorithm, it's essentially what makes it different from peertube I guess
bruh the alternative to tiktok should be absolutely nothing. imagine if the conversation was "europeans are dependent on highly addictive american and chinese drugs" and the conclusion was "so we should create our own drugs instead" and not "let's do our best to make people not use the drugs"
A potentially deranged teen approached me at the supermarket cashier asking me if I had social networks or used tik tok, or something like that. “No, I have forbidden them to myself for reasons of mental hygiene”
I hope I'm wrong and Loops takes off, but I imagine there isn't a lot of overlap between people who are thoughtful enough with their social media usage to want a a federated platform, and people who enjoy TikTok-style (short / vertical) videos
I haven't used it in a number of months.
It works as a short video delivery tool, but it's filtering is almost non-existent.
At the very least, let me limit what I see on a language basis.
The lightning in the bottle for shorts is providing you what you like to see and refining that list to make it even better.
It's also what makes shorts platforms so addictive.
My two most used platforms are actually tik tok and Lemmy.
But never actually used loops, or even peertube, because lack of content.
It's easier for content to be generated by fewer users in lemmy or mastodon.
Same for me, although for loops the other thing I don't like that much is that you have to curate it much more to be served videos you're actually interested in. I understand many people here probably do their best to get away from algorithmically served content but it's what TikTok does best imo.
I like shorts. Things like "DNS in 30 seconds."
It's not the format or the platform that turns me away, it's the content. I don't care about people twerking in the street or "kid drinks coke with mentos."
I mean that's kind of the one thing TikTok has going for it; it's algorithm is very good at quickly adapting to what type of content you like. There's plenty of IT/tech content on there, it just takes liking a few videos about a topic beforeyour feed adjusts. I havent seen "people twerking in the street" or "kid drinks coke with mentos" videos since basically the first time I opened the app.
Lol maybe it's because every time I open the app I uninstall it. Kidding. I did see some absolutely incredible ways of teaching and learning math that made me utterly furious at the American education system. We teach academic subjects in the absolutely dumbest way possible. I learned that on Tiktok.
"C++ in 30 seconds."
No one can be Derek Banas.
There might be a segment of users who want a "lefty" version of tiktok-style platform, in which Loops would probably fit that niche. My partner uses Red Note though, and it fits that criteria just fine while also being way more usable.
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Does it still kind of suck?
It's like most of the fediverse... it sucks because there's basically zero content/discoverability
That's true of many platforms but I think Lemmy is an example of the exact opposite. I just registered on my instance and now I get loads of interesting content from the general feed.
In fact Reddit, which is supposed to have more content, failed to get me using it because I just found it boring, unlike Lemmy.
I don't mind that, but what I do mind is that the advertised premise of the fediverse (one account for all socials) is kind of a lie
The way it's presented on jointhefediverse.net makes it seem like you can use one account across all federated socials. But it's more one account for each social, across all instances of that social, with some interoperability
Yeah blusky doesbit better it seems really for this
technically you can. I've seen people post to lemmy from mastodon, for example. I'm not super knowledgeable about this.
You can also do it the other way, and call out Mastodon users from Lemmy.
I did that to Jason Scott once, though I think he was less than happy about it. I was just shocked it worked.
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If only I managed to receive their confirmation email...
not showing up in my region. and it should very much be on fdroid too, didn't find it there either.
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